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AdRICVhT URAh IlEPORT. 

 Exports of cattle and luog producia during the last three years. 



BOSTON. 



The receipts of farm-animals for ten years just closed were as follows : 



Cattle xwoducts. — The receipts and exports of mess-beef, butter, and 

 cheese during 1871 and 1872 were as follows : 



1871. 1872. 



R6C6ipts \ 



Beef, mess barrels.. 27,441 24,951 



Butter packages.. 442,318 4r)l,917 



Chee.se casks.. .^.'J4 283 



Cheese boxes.. 202,487 187,484 



Cheese., tons.. 131 129 



Exports : 



Beef, foreigii barrels.. 8,114 7,932 



Beef, coastwise barrels . . ' 1, 3.54 904 



Cheese, foreign boxes. . 8, 719 4, 726 



Cheese, foreign casks. . 68 



Cheese, coastwise boxes.. 1,639 1,922 



Butter packages.. 8,594 6,457 



The range of prices per barrel of western beef — mess and extra — 

 during the past ten years was as follows : 18G3, 811 to 810 ; 18G4, 814 

 to 820; 1865, 810 to 826; 1866, 816 to 824.50; 1867, 815 to 827; 1868, 

 815.50 to 825; 1860, 810 to 818; 1870, $12 to $19; 1871, $10 to $18; 

 1872, 810 to 814. 



Prices of butter and cheese duringthe pastteu years ranged as follows : 



