REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. SLF 
the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury show the export of the last 
two calendar years as follows: 
Section. 1877. | 1878. 
Pounds. Values. Pounds. ues. 
SBHEMNV OND = cs cenn cena nayatae teen seekers 436, 046,720 | $43,934,084 | 695, 617, 067 $54, 827, 455 
PMIGUASG Ss ooo. acce cae cdtees ccewaue cacccusece« 65, 813, 941 5, 364, 791 83, 743, 710 5, 055, 573 
ee acihiG slopOses6ssnesae n= seea anne on 237, 069, 523 23, 489, 433 | 358, 317, 129 28, 476, 228 
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RO bal perme eee ae nates ee ee 738, 930, 184 72, 788, 308 fh 137, 677, 906 88, 359, 256 
While we added nearly one-third to the quantity of our exports the 
increase of values was but 185 per cent. This decrease in prices largely 
accounts for the immense increase in quantities. The exports by fiscal 
years will be found under the head of agricultural exports. 
EUROPEAN STATISTICS. 
The statistical inquiries of Great Britain are made annually on the 
4th of June, and the returns are compiled, tabulated, and published by 
the statistical department of the Board of Trade. From those gathered 
in June, 1878, we have returns from 556,809 occupiers of land, being all 
who occupy more than half an acre. In Ireland, where the returns are 
made by the registrar-general, they include all holders of land, however 
small. 
In Great Britain the area returned as under cultivation has increased 
since 1877 by 142,000 acres, and by more than a million and a half acres 
since 1869. This increased acreage is not altogether due to new land 
being broken up, but results from a more correct return and from land 
reclaimed from mountains and marshes. 
In Ireland there is a further decrease of 82,000 acres in the cultivated 
. area, which in 1877 amounted to a decrease of 300,000 acres. Looking 
at the different crops in detail we notice that the area in wheat in the 
United Kingdom was increased nearly 2 per cent. over 1877 and 8 per 
cent. over 1876, but that the average of the last three years has been 
below that of the previous seven. There was also an increase of 2 per 
cent. in the area sown in barley, but oats show an equal decline. Beans 
show a decrease of 12 per cent., and pease 9 per cent. The decline sines 
1869 has been very considerable, and shows that there are only 11,000,000 
acres in all cereals against 12,000,000 in 1869. 
In the green crops there is no material change; a slight increase in 
pasture and hay is reported. 
In live stock we find a slight increase in horses; the importation con- 
tinues from abroad, there having been imported 30,524 in 1877. The 
decrease of cattle in 1877 has not continued in 1878, and there is a slight 
increase; the collectors state that the competition of American beef has 
caused less to be bred. Sheep have somewhat declined in number. 
Pigs have slightly declined in Great Britain and by as much as 12 per 
cent. in Ireland. 
Many collectors cite the increasing competition of American bacon as 
diminishing the stock materially. It appears that during the first eight 
months of 1878 the total imports of bacon into Great Britain were 
2,404,000 cwts., which exceed by 743,000 ewts. the imports of the same 
period of 1877. 5 
In view of the intimate commercial relations between the two countries 
