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Froporiions of the different grains in each annual export of the last thirteen fiscal yearn. 



DOMESTIC TRADE. 



The following table shows the aimnal receipts of flour, meal, wheat, 

 corn, rye, oats, and barley at the seven leading outports of our foreign 

 trade during six calendar years : 



Products. 



Flour bbl. 



Wheat bn.sh . 



Corn-meal bbl . 



Corn bush . 



"Wheat, including; flour.. do.. 



Corn, including meal do.. 



Oats do.. 



H vo do.. 



Barley do . . 



1871. 



9, 700, 695 



43, 497, 302 



2G7, 445 



53, 251, 350 



Total 170,176,784 



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1872. 



9, 239, 559 



28, 188, 129 



316, 682 



77, 580, 345 



74, 385, 904 



73, 853, 073 



24, 522, 650 



1.023,897 



5, 309, 385 



1873. 



1874. I 



1875. 



10, 300, 848 



52, 938, 252 



377, 141 



54, 407, 806 



11, 47G, 1S4 



63, 308, 229 



347, 046 



54, 857, 006 



10, 889, 544 



54, 938, 667 



248, 323 



51, 961, 559 



104, 442, 4:'2 

 55, 916, 370 

 24, 144, 032 



1, 305, 902 



2, 415, 126 



1120,669,149 1109, .386, 387 



S6, 215, 190 



21,906,211 



987, 743 



3, 941, 718 



184,094,909 188,223,922 :203,770,011 



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52, 954, 851 



21, 236, 003 



659, 438 



6, 214, 017 



190, 450, 699 



1876. 



10, 889, 306 



43, 074, 032 



365, 393 



88, 758, 838 



97, 520, 562 

 90,220,410 

 25, 669, 813 

 2, 640, 024 

 8, 121, 878 



224, 172, 687 



The receipts at these ports — New York, Boston, Portland, Montreal, 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore, and IsTew Orleans — represent the great leading 

 currents of our flour and grain movements, though these are but a small 

 part of our total domestic trade. It will be noted that the aggregate opera- 

 tions along these lines of shiimieut during 1876 exceeded those of any 

 former year in our history. All kinds of grain -were marketed in in- 

 creased quantities except wheat, which shows a falling off both as 

 unground grain and in the form of flour. Our foreign export of flour 

 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, was less than 40 per cent, of 

 ■what was sent to these outports during the calendar year 1876. The 

 proportion was about the same during the three previous years. The 

 exports of raw wheat, however, which include heavy shipments from the 

 Pacific coast, far exceeded the receipts of these ports. Our corn exports 

 were less than 57 per cent, of the receipts at the outports, rye about 22 

 per cent, oats about 5f per cent., barley less than 4 per cent. These facts 

 partly indicate the very small proportion which our foreign trade bears to 

 our domestic trade, even when our view is limited to wholesale operations 

 on a large scale. The great mass of the shipments to seaboard markets 

 supply only the home demand, either in city consumption, in the coast- 

 ing trade, or in distribution to local markets by land carriage. When 

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