The emigratiou to Kansas and tlie Territories lias for years kept up 

 prices for the products of the rej^ion west of the Missouri. 



The averages for oats ]iavefolh)wed the decline noticed in corn, which 

 exhibit a greater reduction in the West than in the East, as is the case 

 with corn. The decline in the Western States is 12 ])er cent. 



A material reduction is noted in the averages for barley and rye, for 

 details of which see the tables. 



The averages for potatoes have materially advanced : from 52 to GO 

 cents in Maine; 45 to 70 in l^e'w Hampshire; 38 to 51 in Verjnont; 08 

 to 90 in Massachusetts ; 51 to 05 in New York ; 02 to 94 in New Jersey. 

 Last year the western averages ranged from 37 cents in Michigan to 72 in 

 Minnesota, only Wisconsin, Iowa, and Kentucky being above 50 ; now 

 the range is from 52 in Iowa to 95 in Minnesota, three other States 

 having averages above 70, viz : Wisconsin, 74; Ohio, 81 ; Iiuliana, 83. 

 The prices in different sections of the South are always variable, depend- 

 ing upon local supply, Avhich is small in the cotton States, and mainly 

 for use in the spring or early summer as a table rarity, or, in the autumn, 

 for seed. 



The averages for hay have advanced slightly in the West, and largely 

 in New York and New England. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey there 

 is a small decline, as in the Southern Atlantic States. The drought of 

 this portion of the Atlantic Coast set in too late to injure the hay crop, 

 which was, in some sections, unusually large from the large amount of 

 rain-fall in the si)ring. 



The prices of sorghum sirup are uniformly lower than in January of 

 last year; Ohio, as a fair example, averaging 73 cents per gallon then, 

 and 00 cents now. 



The tables will furnish opi>ortunities for comparison which cannot be 

 improved in further detail in this analysis. 



