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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, 



trausportatioQ keep the United States far behind Great Britain in the 

 Brazilian trade. The cotton-trade amounts to $40,800,000, which goes 

 entirely to Europe, Great Britain getting the lion's share. 

 The trade of 1875 was distributed, by ports of entry, as follows : 



Porta. 



Bahia 



Ceara 



Marauham , 



llaceio 



Para 



Pernambuco 



Rio de Janeiro 



Rio Grande del Sni. 

 Santos 



Imports. 



$70.3, C4l 95 

 33, o50 CO 

 94, 000 00 



300, 000 00 



873,500 00 



5, 200, 000 00 



200, 000 00 



Exports 



$587, 147 94 



23, 230 51 



112, 000 00 



782, 452 66 



374, 4fi4 5.5 



086, 1G6 00 



1,621,204 CO 



The quantities and market values of several products of the rural 

 industry of the United States, imported into Eio Janeiro last year, 

 were: 



Flour, 317,410 barrels $2,793,208 



Kerosene, 110,285 cases 463, 197 



Spirits of tnri)entine, 2,600 cases 26,000 



Rosin, 3,84.5 barrels 14,611 



Pitch-pine, 7,943,000 feet 364,170 



White pine, 4,674,000 feet 222,000 



Lard, 85,705 kegs 784,160 



Total 4,607,946 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



The agriculture of the Argentine Republic is not prosperous. With a 

 rich soil, almost entirely unoccupied, the importation of wheat, eggs, 

 butter, and cheese increases. The wild state of the country, the inse- 

 curity of life and property, the contempt of the native for tillage of the 

 soil, leaves little to rural enterprise beyond the breeding of cattle. 

 Foreigners are the only tillers of the soil. The following table of im- 

 ports illustrates this strange and unfortunate condition of affairs: 



Articles. 



1873. 



1874. 



1675. 



Wheat kilofjramo . . 



Flour kilograms. . 



Indian corn kilo;crams.. 



Corn-meal kilograms . . 



Butter kilograms. . 



Potatoes kilograms. . 



Cheese kilograms.. 



Eggs dozen.. 



1, 044, 929 

 1, 013, 822 



115,549 

 11,790 



655, 072 

 5,831 



2, 550, 405 



7, 450, 781 



60, C85 



131, 88C 



65, 674 



713, 703 



758, 454 



2,148 



4, 887, 451 



16, 922, 739 



60, 675 



255,081 



7ti, 000 



' 1,031,' 721 

 24, 188 



Tlie farm-products exported are mainly corn and hay ; but corn-meal, 

 requiring mills and millers, is imported. The quantity sent out is as 

 follows : 



A plague of locusts has of late years devastated portions of the 

 interior provinces. While the subtropical forests of the entire eastern 

 slope of the Cordilleras of the Andes exhibit wonderful arboreal re- 

 sources, the present inhabitants of that region make little use of them, 



