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The following are the tabulated results of the returns relative to har- 

 vesting and cleaning grain : 



Table shon'htg the average prices per acre of harvesting and staclcing ichcat and hag, and per 

 hiishcl for huHhing and cribbing and of shelling corn, from the returns of statistical corre- 

 spondents made in December, 186;). 



YIELD AND PRICES OF FARM CROPS. 



The returns of home prices of farm crops as exhibited in the following 

 tables show much larger reduction than was noted a year ago in many 

 of the products of the farm. The fall in wheat has marked an era in 

 the history of prices of this grain, hi the New England States, where 

 the prices ranged from $2 to $2 42, the averages now range from $1 40 

 to 81 83 ; in New York the reduction is from $2 08 to $1 37 ; in Oliio, 

 from $1 05 to ^1 03; in Illinois, from $1 20 to 76 cents; in Iowa, from 

 95 cents to 52 cents. 



The price of corn has fallen in New England from the average ot 

 $1 42 to that of $1 30 ; New York, from $1 12 to $1 03; Pennsylvania, 

 from $1 to 92 cents; while in Ohio the price has increased from 00 cents 

 to 72 cents ; in Illinois, from 43 cents to 57 cents ; and in Iowa from 37 

 cents to 50 cents. The price of corn has increased throughout the West, 

 except in Minnesota, Nebraska, and Kansas, where the local supply from. 



