158 



COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



during the year ending June 30, 1890, compared 

 with the values for the preceding year, are given 

 in the following table : 



The agricultural implements that made the 

 value under that head greater in 1890 than in 

 1889 were mowers and reapers and plows. The 

 number of live cattle exported in 1890 was 394,- 

 836, valued at $31,261,131, against 205,786, of 

 the value of $16,616,917, in 1889. The number 

 of hogs increased from 45,128 to 91,148, the value 

 from $356,764 to $909,042. The number of sheep 

 declined from 128,852 to 67,521, the value from 

 $366,181 to $243,077. The number of horses 

 exported was 3,501, fewer than in 1889, but of 

 higher value ; the number of mules was 3,544, an 

 increase of 20 per cent. Among cereals the ex- 

 ports of barley were almost the same in both 

 years, though the value declined more than 12 

 per cent. ; bread and biscuit show a small in- 

 crease ; corn increased from 69,592,929 to 101,- 

 973,717 bushels, the value being $42,658,015 in 

 1890, against $32,982,277 in 1889 ; in corn meal 

 there was an increase in value from $870,485 to 

 $896,879 ; the export of oats, only 624.226 bush- 

 els in 1889, valued at $245 562, rose to 13,692,359 

 bushels, of the value of $4,510,055, and of oat- 

 meal was exported $784,879 worth, against $273,- 

 173 ; the rye export increased from 87,252 to 

 2,257,377 bushels, in value from $158,917 to 

 $1,279,814; in wheat the increase in quantity 

 was from 46,414,129 to 54,387,767 bushels, in 

 value from $41,652,701 to $45,275.906 ; in wheat 

 flour it was from 9,374,803 to 12,231,711 barrels, 

 in value from $45,296,485 to $57,036,168. Un- 

 der the head of chemicals, drugs, dyes, and medi- 

 cines there was a small falling off in the exports 

 of patent and proprietary medicines and the ex 

 port of ginseng diminished 271,228 to 2$ 

 pounds; dye stuffs and potash also showed a 

 falling off, and yet the growing trade in numer- 

 ous other substances swelled the total to a con- 

 siderably larger figure than that of the year 

 before. The value of the clocks exported is $1,- 

 344,047, of watches $351.089, both showing an 

 increase. Of anthracite coal there was exported 

 793,140 tons, over 15 per cent, less, of bituminous 

 coal 1,138,681 tons, 45 per cent, more than in the 



