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EEPOET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



The total foreign commerce of 1875 is thus reported : 



The chief articles imported were cloths, food-products, salt, wines and 

 liquors, and metal manufiictures ; the exports were mainly gold and sil-. 



ver dust and bars, tobaoso, cinchona bark, vegetable ivorj, and fine 

 woods, these articles comprising seven-tenths of the exports. 



The principal items of domestic exports from the United States of 

 North America to the United States of Colombia were as follows : 



Valno. 



Total exports $3,946,442 



Agricultural implements 59,550 



Beer and wine - 1,496 



Billiard tables and apparatus 19,851 



Blacking 1,512 



Booke, pamphlets, maps, &c * 43,727 



Breadstuffs and bread: broad and biscuit, 200,960 pounds; flour, 44,275 



barrels 312,683 



Brooms and brushes of all kinds - 1, 153 



Candles, tallow and other, 141,978 pounds 2(5,806 



Carriages, carts, and parts of 30,712 



Clocks... iy.685 



Coal of all kinds, 23,679 tons 104,292 



Copper and manufactures of 1,033 



Cordage, rope, and twine of all kinds, 105,149 pounds 16, 859 



Cotton and manufactures of 103,347 



Drugs, chemicals, and medicines not otherwise specified 278, 981 



Earthen and stoneware and fancy articles 5,882 



Yvuit '-^4,775 



Glass and glass ware 35, 839 



Gold and silver and manufactures of 60, 885 



Hay, 103 tons 2,226 



Hemp and manufactures of - 4,015 



Hops, 9,629 pounds., 1-052 



Ice, 2,854 tons 7,561 



India rubber and gutta-percha, manufactures of , 10, 902 



Iron and manufactures of 407, 419 



Steel and manufactures of 274, 195 



Junk and oakum - 4,278 



Lamps '"^'^T 



Leather and manufactures of 24, 731 



Lime r'I~? 



Marble and stone J^' t 



Matches - ^'P^X 



Mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments -^ ^80 



Musical instruments i am 



Naval stores ^}> '^^l. 



Oils — mineral, refined *^;^' "^.^^^ 



Animal oils I'm* 



Vegetable oils ooV^fe 



Ordnance stores ■^yp '^f'^ 



Taints and painters' colors ^^' yy° 



Paintings and engravings, paper and stationery lo'diH 



Perfumery * •■--- 1"-, 41o 



