AGRICULTURE. 



Table showing quantity and value of pork products exported for each year 

 from 1879 t 1889, inclusive. 



The large export trade of the year just ended has done much 

 to relieve the markets of this country, and to maintain the price 

 of cattle and beef. While cattle have sold somewhat lower than 

 during 1888, the decline has been very much less than in pork, 

 as has been shown in the preceding section of this report. The 

 enormous corn crop of this year, with the low average price of 

 this important article of animal food, has been a most important 

 factor in depressing the price of both hogs and cattle. Accord- 

 ing to the estimates of the statistical division of this department, 

 the average price of the last corn crop is but 28.3 cents per 

 bushel, being much the lowest average of any crop raised during 

 the last ten years. 



