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year, owing to tlie discouraging influence of low prices, but the reports 

 furnished lis indicate a slight increase in packing, and for the coming 

 season it is expected that there will be no decrease. San Francisco 

 continues to do the largest part of the packing, and operaticeis are car- 

 ried on tliroughout the year at this point. The number of hogs packed 

 at San Francisco and the estimated number at other parts of the State 

 was 290,000, against 280,000 last year. The number packed in Oregon 

 is estimated as smaller than last year, and is placed at 80,000, against 



120,000 in 1878. 



RECAPITULATION. 



The total number of hogs packed in the United States during the last 

 four years is as follows : 



EUEOPEAN STATISTICS. 



The following table gives the average annual yield of wheat in the 

 princij);;! producing countries of the world j also, the estimated yield 

 for the crop of 1879 : 



Country. 



France 



Enssia 



Germany 



Spain 



Italy 



Aiisitria-Hungary . 

 Great Britain . .". .. 

 Turkey in Europe 



Koumania 



Belgium 



Algiers 



Canada 



Anstralia 



Egypt 



Average year. 



Bushels. 



289, 500, 000 



220, 400, COO 



124, 520, 000 



118, 860, 000 



110, 370, 000 



104, 710, 000 



104, 000, 000 



42, 450, 000 



33, 960, 000 



24, 055, 000 



25, 470, 000 



10, 980, 000 



18, 395, 000 



IG, 980, 000 



1879. 



Bushels. 



229, 230, 000 



198, 100, 000 



113, 200, 000 



99, 050, 000 



84, 900, 000 



79, 240, 000 



59, 430, 000 



30, 790, 000 



28, 300, 000 



18, 305, 000 



21, 225, 000 

 IC, 980, 000 



22, 074, 000 

 14, 150, 000 



Among the above countries, France, Germany, and Spain, in an 

 average year, raise sufficient for home consumption. Eussia, Austria- 

 Hungary, Turkey in Europe, A ustralia, Canada, Algiers, and Egypt 

 have a surplus for export, while Great Britain usually imports nearly 

 100,000,000 bushels. 



The agricultural returns from Great Britain and Ireland made op 

 June 4, 1879, show a total cultivated area of 31,976,000 acres in Great 

 Britain, 15,330,000 in Ireland, and 125,000 acres in the Isle of Man and 

 Channel Islands. Thus for the whole of the United Kingdom the cul- 

 tivated area was in 1879 47,437,000 acres, exclusive of heath and mount- 

 ain pasture and of woods and plantations. 



In Great Britain the area returned as under cultivation has increased 

 by 121,000 acres since 1878, and by 204,000 acres since 1877, and the 

 total increase since 1809 is no less than 1,637,000 acres. Of this 



