REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



Cotton and cotton manufactures — Continued. 



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The total value of our cotton exports fell off $18,311,944 or 10 per cent, 

 from the previous aggregate. In raw material there was a falling off of 

 one-third in the high priced sea island cotton, which averaged $0,27.5 

 per pound against $0,25.5 last year. Of other raw cotton there was an 

 increase in quantity of 27,164,469 pounds, or about 1^ per cent. Ita 

 average value was $0,09.9 per pound against $0,11.1 the previous year. 

 It should be remembered that it represented the crop gTown and gath- 

 ered in 1878, and could have embraced little, if any, of the crop of 1879. 

 The whole of our sea island export, as in the previous year, went to the 

 United Kingdom and France. Of other raw cotton the United Kingdom, 

 France, Belgium, and Netherlands decreased their quota, while Germany 

 and other European countries made an increased demand. TheEuropean 

 continent took 16,614,710 pounds more in the fiscal year of 1879 than in 

 that of 1878 ; that is, so many pounds more of the crop of 1878 than of 

 that of 1877. To other countries of the world our aggregate export 

 somewhat increased. 



Our cotton goods fell in value fi'om $11,438,660 in 1878 to $10,853,950 

 in 1879. There was an increase in the export of colored goods of 7,350,745 

 yards, or nearly 20 per cent. But uncolored fabrics fell off 4,446,873 

 yards, or 5 per cent. The average values per yard for both colored and 

 uncolored goods remain nearly the same. Miscellaneous cotton manu- 

 factures suffer some decline in aggregate value. Of colored goods the 

 United Kingdom takes about double her previous quantity; France takes 

 none at all. Germany and the rest of Europe take a smaller quantity. 

 British North America declines. But the American continent south of 

 us, together with the West Indies, increase their demand, as do the other 

 countries of the world. For uncolored goods the United Kingdom and 

 Europe generally have about doubled their demand. British North 

 America has also increased, but all the other countries of the world have 

 fallen oft". The proi)ortion of the vakies of manufactures to the total cot- 

 ton export is about the same as last year, a little below 6 per cent. 



Wood and its products. — This branch of our agricultural export 

 shows a decline of $1,024,150, or over four millions in two years. The 

 greatest loss is in timber, sawed and hewed, in which there is a falling 

 off of 5,105,674 cubic feet. Laths, hogsheads, barrels, miscellaneous 

 lumber, fire- wood, telegraph-poles, logs, masts, spars, pot and pearl ashes, 

 tanning-bark, tar and pitch, show increased values at lower prices. All 

 the other items decline. The United Kingdom takes to the value of 

 $3,120j727 against $6,796,104 in 1878, and $9,220,006 in 1877 j France, 



