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Notwitlistanding the lowncss of quotations, the arrivals of foreign 

 wheat in this country during the first half of 1866 were 11,508,676 

 cwts., being 55 per cent, over those of the corresponding half of 

 1865, and 15 per cent, over 1864. The chief increase was from 

 France and Iiussia, bnt there was likewise a considerable augmen- 

 tation from miscellaneous sources — ^that is to say, from the various 

 places that are individually unimportant, and figure under the general 

 head of " other countries." From the United States, which so 

 recently as the year before last sent nearly 40 per cent of our entire 

 foreign supply, the proportion in the first six months of 1866 was 

 only 3 per cent. Eussia sent 32 per cent. ; France, 23 per cent. ; 

 Pmssia, 15 per cent.; Mecklenburg, 3 per cent. ; the Hanse-Towns, 

 3 per cent. ; Turkey, 2 per cent. ; Denmark, 1 per cent. ; Schleswig- 

 Holstein, 1 per cent. ; Egypt and British Korth America, each merely 

 a few hundredweights, and other countries 17 per cent. Of flour 

 the importations were 3,134,484 cwts., being double those of the 

 same period of 1865, and 11 per cent, over those of 1864; and in 

 this case also France showed the chief increase, the quantity thence 

 having been 87 -per cent, of the whole, the United States having 

 contributed only 5 per cent. Of other kinds of grain the arrivals 

 were mostly large, especially of Indian corn, of which we received 

 three times as much as in 1865, and nearly six times as much 

 as in 1864. Beans are the only grain that shows any material 

 falling off, the importation of these having been only of about half 

 the extent of those of 1864 and 1865. Oats show an increase of 13 

 per cent., and peas 150 per cent. 



t Grain, Flour, Potatoks, Living Animals, Cheese, Guano, Imported 

 in the First Six Months of 1864-5-6. 



"Wheat cwts. 



Barley , , 



Oats ,, 



"Wheatmeal and Flour .. .. ,, 



Potatoes , , 



Oxen, Bulls, and Cows .. number 



Calves , , 



Sheep and Lambs , , 



S\7iue and Hogs , , 



Cheese cwts. 



Guano : — From Peru tons 



From other countries , , 

 Total Guano . . ... , , 



1864. 



1865. 



1866. 



10,047,102 

 2,448,611 

 1,769,726 



2,774,751 

 235,334 



47,966 



15,928 

 129,350 



18,802 

 234,176 



40,957 

 7,671 



48,628 



7,462,268 

 4, 161,894 

 3,081 ,990 



1,562,375 



411,789 



74,392 



18,785 

 250,212 



38,706 

 240,503 



92,988 



13,255 



106,243 



11,508,676 



3,954,929 



3,490,490 



3,134,484 



216,210 



72,812 



9,122 



411,729 



29,873 



190,409 



59,469 



12,883 

 72,352 



