245 



The following imports of wheat and corn, showing a great disparity in favor 

 of the present year, reveal the utter insignificancy of the share allotted to the 

 United States in the labor and profits of feeding the millions of hungry work- 

 men of Great Britain : 



1865. 



1866, 



Wheat— 



From Russia cwts . 



Prussia do . . 



Denmark do . . 



Schleswig Holsteiu and Lauenburg- do . . 



Mecklenburg; do . . 



Hause Towns do.. 



France do . . 



Turkey, "Wallacbia, and Moldavia do . . 



United States do . . 



British North America do. . 



Other countries do . . 



Total do.. 



Wheat meal and flour — 



From Hanse Towns do . . 



France do . . 



United States - do.. 



British North xVmerica do . . 



Other countries do . . 



Total do.. 



Indian corn or maize do . . 



Corn meal do . . 



Total do.. 



1,231,453 

 382,113 



88, 234 



52, 949 



97, 195 



29, 309 



176, 907 



169,312 



127,924 



2, 294 



214,831 



3, 092, 245 



409, 222 



55, 578 



39, 520 



82, 827 



87, 425 



1,740,207 



218,788 



303, 084 



8,789 



1,145,723 



2, .572, 521 



7, 183, 408 



85, 392 

 767, 622 

 94,238 

 11,385 

 26, 739 



78, 127 



2,011,452 



162,412 



6,043 



86, 374 



985, 376 



2,314,408 



1,316,017 

 2,191 



4,074,576 

 7, 072 



1,318,208 



4,081,648 



Here it is seen that Britain buys this season ten times as much wheat trom 

 Russia as from us, and from her hereditary enemy, France, nearly six times as 

 much. A little more than four per cent, of her seven millions of hundred-weight 

 are bought from the United States. 



A single township in Wisconsin of thirty-six square miles, producing an aver- 

 age of 19 bushels per acre, M'ould more than furnish this shipment of 303,084 

 hundred-weight. The shipment of flour has been still less — 162,412 hundred- 

 weight. It may not be amiss, in glancing at these paltry breadstufif figures, to 

 turn to the following, showing three items only of the manufactures of wool im- 

 ported into the United States from January 1, 1S6G, to April 30, 1866, from 

 Great Britain : 



2 A 



