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FARMING IX THE WESTERN STATES. 



The flour-barrel in the above table contains 200 pounds; wheat is 

 estimated at 60 pounds per bushel . The manufactures by the city 

 mills during the last four calendar years were as follows: 1870, 

 250,000 barrels; 1871, 240,000 barrels; 1872, 310,000 barrels; 1873, 

 250,000 barrels. Of the exports of 1873, nearly all the wheat and 

 the largest part of the flour were sent to the United Kingdom. This 

 flour export, however, was an exceptional trade resulting from the 

 failure of European wheat-crops. In the previous years the flour 

 export to the British islands was comparatively small. 



The receipts of corn, rye, oats, and barley for eight harvest-years 

 were as follows: 



Corn and rye are to a very small extent exported, the small supply 

 being required mostly for city consumption. During 1873 the ex 

 port of oats amounted to 9,541 bushels, against 16,950 bushels in 

 1872. The exports of barley in 1873 were 434,816 bushels, against 

 293,588 bushels in 1872 and 20,618 bushels in 1871. 



