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EXPORTS AND PRICES OF PRODUCE. 



[[From the Journals of Commerce ot_K^e\v York and Chicago.] 



Tahle of the exports from New York of the leading agricultural products, from 

 January 1, 1864, to December 21, compared with those of the same time in 

 1863, and their prices at New York and Chicago on the2lst of December, 1864. 



Wheat flour ..barrels 



Ere flour do... 



Com meal do — 



Wheat bushels 



Corn do... 



Eye do... 



Barley do... 



Oats do . . 



Peas do... 



Cotton bales 



Hay do.. 



Hops.: do.. 



Leaf tobacco . . . hhds. 

 Leaf tobacco ..pkgs. 

 Manuf'd do.. pounds 

 Petroleum . .. gallons 



Pork barrels 



Beef do .. 



Beef tierces 



Cut meats ." . . poirnds 



Butter do... 



Cheese do... 



Lard do... 



Tallow do... 



1864. 



1863. 



From Jan. 1 

 to Dec. 21. 



1 , 899, 983 



2,840 



103, 446 



12,165,343 



841,297 



588 



150 



41,775 



184, 433 



26, 744 



39, 257 



22, 073 



89, 639 



69, 774 



4,948,476 



■21,278,439 



129, 421 



36, 061 



49, 290 



93, 573, 155 



14,151,375 



49, 490, 831 



53, 070, 467 



31, 938, 576 



From Jan. 1 

 to Dec. 21. 



1864, December 21. 



Prices at New York. 



2, 472, 287 



5,441 



138, 470 



15, 098, 012 



7, 530, 931 



416,369 



52, 439 



126, 481 



105, 609 



13, 877 



19,916 



24,419 



57, 545 



46, 948 



3, 412, 748 



189, 080 



40, 508 



58, 885 



181,584,7.56 



22, 324, 757 



39, 818, 485 



120,316,131 



42,441,949 



g9 55 to 



9 00^ to 

 8 80' 



2 28 to 



1 90 to 



12 00 

 9 45 



2 60 

 1 9U 



00 

 05 



23 



40 



20 



lOi to 



75 



39 12^ to 



19 00 to 



39 00 



16|to 



38 to 



15 to 



20^ to 



17 to 



2 04i 

 1 06 



1 25 



1 70 

 52i 

 35 



42 25 

 24 00 



21 

 60 

 24 

 25 



18 



Prices at Chicago. 



$1 52 



91 



1 20 



1 40 



65 



00 

 33 



35 00 

 16 00 



$1 87 



1 05 



1 32 



1 55 



66 



10 

 55 



to 40 00 

 to 20 00 



16| to 

 30' to 

 18 to 

 22 to 

 15 to 



IBi 



44 



25 



23 



16i 



WESTEEN POEK TEADE. 



The indications are that there will be an increase in the number of hogs 

 slaughtered at Cincinnati and Chicago over that of last season. Still the pre- 

 vailing impression is that there will be a large decrease in the whole number 

 packed. 



The Price Current of Cincinnati says: "There is no doubt now that the 

 number to be packed here this season will far exceed that of last season, though, 

 at one time, we thought it would not reach it by one hundred thousand, owing 

 to the loss of Kentucky hogs which was then anticipated ; indeed, it is not im- 

 probable that it may reach 450,000 head. The want of funds, or of courag-e, 

 which will cause a tailing off" at the smaller ])laces, will necessarily increase the 

 business at the larger places, and it is this v/hich is causing such large receipts 

 at this point now, for there are no exertions being made by packers to bring 

 hogs to this market." 



The packers of Chicago evince a very different spirit, and wherq energy is 

 put forth it will be rewarded ; where it is wanting, trade will decline. 



Kefcrring to the large increase in the receipt of hogs at Chicago, Hemy Mil- 

 ward & Co's. Provision Circular remarks : 



"The increase in the receipt of hogs for the week might cause a well-merited 



