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EXPORTS OF PETEOLEUM. 



The Xew York Commercial List gives tlie following table of petroleum 

 exports for the last seven years, from the several ports named, iiud 

 the total exports for the preceding two years : 



'Ncvr York galls. 



Boston galls. 



Philadelphia galls . 



Baltimore galls. 



Portland galls . 



'Sevr Bedford galls . 



Cleveland galls. 



Total 



Equal to harrels of 40 galls 



1869. 



18G5. 



65, 933, 600 l52, 803, 202 33, 834, 133 34, 501, 385 14, 626, 000 21, 335, 784) 



•2,117.939 I 2,410,114; 2,264,11.3! 1, 591, 694i 1, 511, 173^ 1,696,307; 



33, 445, 552 !40, 505, 62ii|29, 437, 429i28, 811, 853 12, 552, 882i 7, 760, 148 



1, 251, 423 I 2, 587, 707| 1, 515, 454| 2, 4SJ, 419 973, 117; 920, 97lj 



705, 107 



900 1 



12, 100 

 30, 000 



270,000,. 



11, 088 



5li, 000] 



81, 173; 80, 000 



19, 547, 604 



2, 040, 431 



5, 395, 738 



915, 866 



0, 71)21 342, 062 



102, 748, 604 99, 281. 750 67, 052, 029 67, 430, 451 29, 805, 523 31, 872, 972;28, 250, 721 



2, 508, 715 I 2, 482, 044j 1, 676, 300' 1, 08.5, 761 745, 138 790, 824! 706, 268 



Total export in 1862, 10,887,701 gallons ; 1861, 1,500,000 gallons. 

 The average prices per gallon for the past six years, are given as fol- 

 lows : 



FACTS FEOM YAEIOUS SOURCES. 



The editor of the Rocky Mountain IN'ews, after a trip among tlie 

 farmers of the valley of the Cache a la Poudre, reports the wheat crop 

 of about fortv producers visited to reach 8,660 bushels ; oats and barlev, 

 24,350 bushels; corn, 2,910 bushels; potatoes, 106,090 bushels. The 

 average yield of wheat in the valley is stated to be 22^ bushels per acre, 

 though crops are reported which average as high as 35^ bushels. Care- 

 less farming and the grasshoppers reduced the general average. The 

 average yield of oats is 38i bushels to the acre; the highest yield- 

 reported, 58|^ bushels. Corn averaged 25i bushels per acre; and 

 potatoes, 87 bushels. The latter crop is considered a partial failure. 

 The yield of the same farms in 1868 was as follows: Wheat, 5,258 bushels ; 

 oats and barley, 25,000 bushels ; corn, 2,125 bushels ; potatoes, 5,217 

 bushels. The hay crop of thirty-five parties named reaches 2,405 tons. 

 Of butter, ten farmers report a total of 18,971 pounds. The whole 

 mimber of acres under cultivation, (not including hay land.) is between 

 1,500 and 2,000. The above figures do not show the complete crops of 

 the valley, as there were a few farmers which the reporter failed to see. 



A Colorado farmer urges more attention to the raising of hogs in that 

 Territory. He says bacon, hams, and shoulders have averaged there 

 more than thirty cents per pound for years, and that grain, at an aver- 

 age of two and one-half cents per pound, as it has been for two years past, 

 can nowhere else find so good a market as in the pig-pen. His experi- 

 ence is in favor of using early spring pigs. He feeds" them on milk and 

 oftal from the kitchen and garden until they outgrow the supply, when 

 he adds bran and shorts to the milk, letting it "sour. His pigs thrive 

 wonderfidly on this fare, much better than on corn alone or any other 



