EEPORT OF THt: STATISTICIAN. 



99 



The average prices of clieese on the first Tuesday of each mouth of 

 the past four commercial j-ears were as follows : 



Mouths. 



186a-'69. 



September 

 October... 

 November 

 Pecember. 

 January . . 

 February . 



March 



April 



May 



JiLilo 



July 



Aujrtist . . . 



18G9-'70. 



1870-'71. 



§0 16 

 17J 

 lOi 

 19J- 

 19 



18 

 17 

 16 

 H 



n 



12 



§0 13A 



m 



15 

 15i 

 15i 

 15t 

 15i 

 16 

 15 

 10 

 10 

 9 



1871-7-2. 



80 9 

 14i 

 14i 

 15 

 14i 

 15i 

 17i 

 19 

 14 

 1-2 

 1-Ji 

 I'J 



Note.— The prices of 18C8-'69 were for Western Reserve, and for the other years factory cheese. 



The average annual prices of factory cheese for the last three years 

 were as follows : 1869-'70, 17 cents per pound ; 1870-'71, 13^ cents ; 1871- 

 '72, 14^ cents. For the previous fourteen years the annual average prices 

 of Western Eeserve cheese were as follows : 1855-50, 9f ; 1856-57, 10^^ j 

 1857-'58, 81; 1858-'59, 8^; 1859-'60, 8.Jr; 1SG0-'61, 7A; 1861-'G2, 6-,^^; 

 1862-'63, 10?; 18G3-'G4,li; 1861-'G5, 19f; 1865-'6G, 19 J ; 1866-'67, U^ ; 

 18G7-'G8, 11| ; 18G8-'G9, 16^ cents. 



The aggxegate annual receipts and exports of cheese for the last 

 twenty-seven commercial years were as follows : 



Tears. 



1846 

 1847 

 1848 

 1849 

 1850 

 1851 

 1852 

 1853 

 1854 

 1855 

 1856 

 1857 

 1858 

 1859 



Eeccipts. Exports, 



Tears. 



Boxes. 

 90, 050 

 120, 301 

 138, 800 

 143. 265 

 165; 940 

 205, 444 

 241, 753 

 202, 237 

 216, 892 

 183, 379 

 190, 9H3 

 176, 023 

 199, 578 

 223, 250 



Soxes. 

 35, 459 

 70, 104 

 59, 374 

 55, 134 

 86, 902 

 121, 755 

 150, 689 

 143, 056 

 139, 728 

 102, 352 

 114,607 

 112, 692 

 124, 854 

 146, 196 



1860 

 1861 

 1862 

 1863 

 1864 

 1865 

 1866 

 1867 

 1868 

 1869 

 1870 

 1871 

 1872 



Ivcceipts. Exports. 



Boxes. 

 227, 095 

 156, 583 

 103, 861 

 124, 996 

 114, 167 

 125, 871 

 189, 604 

 200, 971 

 159, 774 

 140, 165 

 198, 963 

 193, 833 

 187, 640 



Boxes. 



172, 753 



121, 253 



59, 543 



71, 830 



80, 939 



83,022 



141,618 



160, 231 



99, 090 



105. 039 



158,222 



136,015 



128, 260 



SJieep. — The receipts and shipments of sheep during the last fifteen 

 commercial years were as follows : 



Keceipts. 



1858 

 1859 

 1860 

 1861 

 18{i2 

 1863 

 1864 

 1865 



17, 896 

 29, 064 

 25, 069 

 23, 041 

 27, 453 

 25,900 

 35,223 

 47, 023 



Shiijmcnts. 



4, 363 

 6,025 

 6, 724 

 6, 000 

 7,433 

 4,745 

 4,077 

 5,815 



Tears. 



1866 

 1867 

 1868 

 1869 

 1870 

 1871 

 1872 



Receipts. 



73, 229 

 91,987 

 73, 097 

 117,548 

 90, 205 

 134, 892 

 187, 022 



Shipments. 



13, 177 

 24, 052 

 19, 809 

 31, 353 

 35, 581 

 51, 109 

 68, 541 



The sheep-trade, as shown by the above figures, is rapidly increasing ; 

 the quality of the animals offered, however, was generally poor during 

 the past year. The advanced price of wool is alleged as the cause of 

 this depreciation; the better class of animals being reserved by the 

 farmers for tlie production of fiber, while only inferior grades were sent 

 to the meat-market. 



