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EEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



$056,663 against $758,282 last year; Germany, $838,427 against 

 $1,297,470; British America, $1,375,706 against $2,344,054. With other 

 countries our trade shows some enlargement. 



Miscellaneous. — The leading miscellaneous articles of agricultural 

 export show a considerable increase in aggregate value as well as in 

 quantities. The average prices have fallen in all the items except cot- 

 ton-seed, hops, oil-cake, and ginseng. The leaf-tobacco export, which 

 is full half of the whole aggregate value, increased in quantity 13 per 

 cent. The following table shows the distribution of this class of pro 

 ducts: 



Art idea. 



Frnita: 



Value 



Heinp and products : 



V alue 



Hops: 



Pounds 



Value 



Average per pound 



Spirits : 



Gallons 



Value 



Average per gallon 



Oil-cake: 



Pounds 



Value 



Average per pound 



Oil, cotton-seed: 



Gallons 



Value 



Average per gallon 



Seed, cotton: 



Pounds 



Value 



Average per pound 



Starch: 



Pounds 



Value 



Average per pound 



Sugar, refined: 



Pounds 



Value 



Average per pound 



Molasses : 



Gallons 



Value 



Average per gallon 



Tobacco, leaf: 



Pounds 



Value 



Average per pound 



Tobacco, manufactures : 



Value 



Potatoes : 



Busbels 



Value 



Average per bushel 



Ginseng: 



Pounds 



Value 



Average per pound 



Total value to each country : 



1879 



1878 



Per cent, of value to each country : 



1878 



1879 



$093, 288 



$661, 927 



5,156,818 



$666, 993 



$0 13. 



108, 529 

 $45,842 

 $0 42. 2 



322, 681, 409 



$4, 248, 323 



$0 12. 8 



557, 785 



$230, 117 



$0 41.3 



16, 397, 938 



$141, 188 



$0 08. 7 



2, 074, 377 

 $133, 953 



$0 04. 5 



40, 997, 632 



$3, 437, 188 

 $0 08.4 



3, 794, 760 

 $864, 396 



$0 17.5 



65, 010, 286 



$7, 151, 868 



$0 11. 



$989, 155 



248 



$194 



$0 78. 



24, 948 



$31, 124 



$1 24 



$19, 395, .556 

 19, 588, 77G 



$29, 938 

 $180, 716 



3, 380, 162 



$1, 018, 506 



$0 30. 1 



10, 765 



$169 



$0 10. 1 



1, 259, 878 



$538, 251 



$0 42. 7 



$166, 741 

 $41, 920 



3,523 



.$458 

 $0 12.9 



122, 476 

 $35, 943 

 $U 29.3 



389, 494 

 pi, 323 

 $0 16.2 



1,094 



$451 



$0 41. 3 



as 



I— < o 



c-!zi 



98, 745 3, &46, 214 

 $1S2, 761 

 $U 04. $0 04. 3 



35 



$11 



$0 31. 4 



44, 784, 776 



$2, -572, 908 



$0 06. 



$2, 526 



241 



$243 



$1 01.0 



141, 237 



$12, 680 

 $0 09. 



735, 972 



$200, 614 



$0 27. 3 



112,998,952 



$8, 108, 810 

 $0 07. 2 



$82, 997 



$119, 486 



$107, 902 



6, 523 



$950 



$0 14. 6 



9,777 

 $3, GOO 

 $0 36. 8 



10, 395 



$140 



$0 13. 5 



99, 390 

 $44, 467 

 $0 44. 7 



4, 453, 760 



$179, 060 



$0 04. 



1,.318 



$343 



$0 25. 9 



38, 214, 957 



$2, 220, 555 



$0 05. 8 



$95, 378 



p* 9 



$10, 944 

 $69, 953 



2, .544, 187 



$828, 497 



$0 32. 6 



3, 348, 089 



$1, 383, 083 



$0 41. 3 



78, 696 



$3,841 



$0 04.9 



57, 051 

 $4,834 

 $0 08. 5 



53, 318 

 $17,125 

 $0 32. 1 



43, 487, 729 



$3, (130, 595 



$0 06. 9 



$194,302 



$4, 347, 323 

 3, 360, 726 



$8, 809, 706 

 6, 329, 832 



40.10 



40.18 



9.00 

 0.90 



18.50 

 12.99 



$2, 771, 881 

 2, 281, 552 



5.70 

 4.68 



$3, 543, 274 

 ■3, 14tJ, 137 



7.30 



12. 64 



