458 REPORT OF THE COMMIBSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



Exports of wheat from India. 



Years. 



1868 

 1869 

 1870 

 1871 

 1872 

 1873 

 1874 

 1875 

 1876 

 1877 



Bushels. 



Years. 



1878. 

 1879. 



1880. 

 1881. 

 1882. 

 1883. 

 1884. 

 1885. 

 1886. 

 1887* 



Bushels. 



Value. 



896, .580 

 972, .541 

 lOi). 495 

 896, 167 

 148 543 

 495, 024 

 203,6.36 

 588,311 

 312, 969 

 ,914,133 



$13,985, 

 2,531, 

 5,471, 



[ 15,952, 

 43, 163, 

 29,631, 

 43,291, 

 30, 736, 

 38,943, 

 20,789, 



Value 



per 

 bushel. 



$1 17 

 1 28 

 1 33 

 1 15 

 1 16 

 1 12 

 1 10 

 1 04 

 99 

 74 



* Year incomplete. 



CONCLUSIOISr. 



The increase of labor in volume and variety to meet tlie public re- 

 quirements upon the statistical branch of this Department cannot be 

 indicated fully in the annual report. This presentation is not a 

 synopsis of the work done, much of which is special and specific, for 

 current uses of individuals or bodies in legislative, administrative, 

 and commercial work. Some of the more important original investi- 

 gations of the year are here recorded, including, of course, the records 

 of acreage, production, and value of some of the principal crops. 

 There are other rural industries, less general in distribution or more 

 complicated in their data, which are not included. The year is too 

 short or the country too large to attempt a census monthly or annu- 

 ally of all products, which include those of nearly every climate or 

 condition in the domain of general agriculture. 



The work has the voluntary assistance of about twelve thousand 

 local correspondents and helpers, and in the Washington ofiB.ce a cleri- 

 cal force of about sixty is employed. It is the constant aim to im- 

 prove the service, in widening its range, in extending its facilities, 

 and in increasing its accuracy and reliability, and esijecially its prac- 

 tical usefulness to the farmers of the United States. 



J. R. DODGE, 



Statistician. 



Hon. Norman J. Colman, 



Commissioner. 



