Average price of ornper bushel o:i the hi of Jarmary, 



States. 



Maine 



New Hampshire. 



Vormont 



Ma.ssaclin8etts . . . 



Rhode I.slaud 



Connecticut 



New York 



New Jersey 



Penueylvauia 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Virp,iuia 



North Carolina . . 

 South Carolina . . 



GeoT'gia 



Florida 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Ijouisiaua 



Texas 



Arkansa.s 



Tennessee 



West Virginia. .. 



Kentucky 



Missouri 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Ohio 



Michigan 



"Wisconsin 



Minnesota 



Iowa 



Kansas 



Nebraska 



California 



Oregon 



1872. 



U 14 

 1 09 

 1 10 



1 06 



1 14 



87 



81 



75 



65 



71 



65 



78 



1 06 



90 



1 35 



93 



98 



1 10 



1 06 



80 



47 



64 



48 



44 



35 



38 



48 



55 



5i 



51 



34 



58 



36 



1 20 



1 00 



$1 27 

 1 30 

 1 40 

 1 32 

 1 28 

 1 30 

 1 03 

 95 

 92 



73 



91 



1 00 



1 40 



1 21 



1 45 



1 14 



1 12 



1 09 



73 



92 



77 



79 



66 



60 



57 



70 



72 



74 



65 



63 



50 



44 



37 



90 



$1 38 



1 43 



1 34 



1 32 



1 65 



1 35 



1 12 



99 



1 00 



85 



87 



76 



78 



1 00 



91 



1 41 



86 



74 



62 

 03 

 49 

 75 

 47 

 57 

 43 

 52 

 60 

 76 

 58 

 64 

 37 

 99 

 69 



1868. 



U 59 

 1 56 



1 52 

 1 53 

 1 64 

 1 50 

 1 32 

 1 23 

 1 17 

 1 02 

 1 09 



85 

 1 04 

 1 15 



96 

 1 38 



79 

 1 09 



77 

 55 

 89 

 65 

 66 

 68 

 65 

 82 

 96 

 86 

 1 07 

 55 

 55 

 74 



$1 35 

 1 37.5 

 1 41 

 1 34 

 1 42 

 1 26 

 1 16 

 1 03 



91 



87 



93 



73 

 1 12 

 1 58 

 1 52 

 1 50 

 1 51 

 1 57 

 1 23 



94 

 1 14 



77 



64 



49 



58 



43 



44 



54 



82 



82 

 1 11 



44 



63 



68 



$1 21 

 1 21.5 

 1 15.25 

 1 10.5 

 1 22.5 

 1 22.5 



95 



85.5 



80 



75 



76. 10 



53.66 



43.33 



52 



29.25 



38.70 



44. 42 



60.11 



46 



51.5 



30 



53 



59 



This tnble shows that corn was highest in price in 1868, the rate reced- 

 ing in 18G9, and again advancing in January, 1870, as a result of the small 

 crop of 1809. The occurrence of two large crops in succession, in 1870 

 and 1871, has had an important influence in depressing the value of 

 this production to a lower point than has been reached since the war. 



In these tables, so full of local variation and fluctuation, are seen the 

 results of meager crops, of tlie greater prominence of other products, of 

 demand springing from the emploj'ment of labor in other industries on 

 the one hand ; and on the other the effect of abundance and a large ratio 

 of corn acreage to the cultivated area. An examination of the record, 

 by counties, would show the influence of isolation from railways and 

 river navigation, and of other local circumstances. 



Prigs of wheat. — An advance in the averages of county i)rices of 

 wheat, since January of last year, is made in every State. The crop 

 was an average one, but not so large as that of last year, while the ex- 

 port demand to supply the large deficiency in Great Britain, and that 

 ]>ortion of the large deficit in France which shall not be provided for 

 by the substitution of coarser grains and other i)rodncts, has been 

 unusually pressing. The increase in value in the principal wheat-pro- 

 ducing States is as follows : 



