608 



AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



for clothing, it is obvious tbat wool-growing has not reached its maximum con- 

 dition. 



The table shows a decrease in hogs of 911,323. Great as this is, and much 

 as it has influenced the prices of the bog product, yet tbe deficiency has become 

 greater since January, when the returns were made to the department. The 

 great scarcity of corn, and its high piicc, caused farmers to abandon their 

 young bogs List winter, and many perished. The present condition of the 

 corn crop will not induce any great extens^ion of hog-raising, and hence the 

 products of the hog must command prices that cannot but make greater atten- 

 tion to this stock one of the highest sources of profit to the farmer. 



PART III. TABLES OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, AND OF THE EXPORTS OF THE 



PRIXCIPAL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS FROM NEW YORK AND THEIR PRICES ; 

 OF THE RECEIPTS, SHIPMENTS, AND PRICES OF THEM AT CHICAGO AND NEW 

 YORK; OF THE IMPORTS OF WHEAT BY GREAT BRITAIN, AND OF OUR EX- 

 PORTS OF PROVISIONS ; OF HOGS AND CATTLE AT CHICAGO, AND OF THE HOG 

 CROP AND PRICES AT CINCINNATI. 



Commerce in agricultural products so affects their value, and so greatly en- 

 courages or represses the productive energies of the farmer, that a general 

 view of its condition in the loyal States becomes a necessary part of the report 

 of this division of the department. 



The exports of our agricultural productions, although small in amount when 

 compared with our home consumption, become of great importance as relieving 

 our market of a surplus which would weigh down home prices ; and, as the 

 exports must bear a certain proportion to tbe imports — no nation being able 

 long to buy where it docs not sell — they must be considered together. The 

 tables given show the import and export trade in a general manner, but the 

 exports of the leading articles of farm produce from New York are given in 

 detail, together with their prices, and tbe price of gold ; also tables showing 

 the foreign demand for wheat as exhibited in the imports of Great Britain ; 

 and of our provisions, as seen in tlie exports of these to all places. 



The internal or home commerce is of the highest importance; the only 

 mode of presenting it is by selecting the points where agricultural products 

 chiefly centre ; and, accordingly, tables of tbe receipts and shipments of these 

 for Chicago and New York are given, with their prices. 



Tabte Xo. 7. 



.^v Imports and ca:ports from New York. 



LMPORTS. 



Year. 



Dry goods. 



Specie. 



Other mercli'se. 



Total imports. 



1860 



1861 



1862 



1863 



1864, 6 mos., fr. Jan. 1 to July I 



$103,927,100 

 43, 630, 689 

 56,121,227 

 67,274,547 

 46, 359, 979 



$8, 852, 330 



37,088,413 



1,390,277 



1,525,811 



$125,481,030 



81,043,688 



117,140,813 



118,814,219 



$238, 260, 460 

 102,768,790 

 174,052,317 

 187,614,577 

 129, 312, 035 



