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The total receipts amounted to 2,359,200 tchetverts against 2,582,000 

 tchetverts in 1873, and 3.454,700 tchetverts in 1872. The decline of the 

 Ivjst two years is attributable in part to the short crops of the regions 

 marketing their grain at Odessa and partly to the growth of rival 

 wheat-markets. The above tables do not embrace the receipts from 

 neighboring farmers which pass, without the interposition of specula- 

 tors, directly into the hands of the exjiorters. 



The stocks of grains and seeds remaining in warehouse December 31, 

 1872, 1873, and 1874 were as follows : 



1872 

 1873 

 1874 



Barley. 



Tchetverts. 

 40, oon 

 13. 000 

 20, 000 



O^ts. 



Tchetverts. 

 14, 500 

 11, 000 

 3,500 



Flaxseed. 



Tchetverts. 



13, 000 



11. 000 



3,500 



Rapeseed. 



Tchetverts. 

 8,000 

 11, f 00 

 5, OUO 



Colza. 



Tchetverts. 

 3,000 

 !», COO 

 1,500 



Pease. 



Tchetverts. 

 3,500 

 1,400 



The total amount of grains and seeds on hand at the close of the last 

 three years was as follows: 1872, 1,194,500 tchetverts; 1873,904,400 

 tchetverts; 1874, 1,030,000 tchetverts. 



The ex[)ort trade will be presented in a future report, and will be re- 

 produced ill a future monthly report of this Department. 



