FARMERS* REGISTER— FLOUR TRADE— TULIPOMANIA. 



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FL.OUR TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Inspections of Wheat and Rye Flour and Corn Meal in 

 the principal ports of the United States for the year 

 1831, compared with the preceding ten years. 



PLACES. 



Wheat 

 Flour. 



Rye 



Flour. 



Albany, New York, . 



New York, 



Philadelphia, 



Baltimore, 



Georgetown, D. C. . . 

 Alexandria, D. C. . . . 

 Fredericksburg, Va. . 



Falmouth, Va 



Richmond, Va 



Petersburg, &c. 



New Orleans, year ) 

 ending Sept. 30, 5 



Total, 1831,. 

 1330,. 

 1S29,. 

 1823,. 

 1827,. 

 1826,. 

 1825,. 

 1824,. 

 1823,. 

 1822,. 

 1821,. 



Barrels 



48,653 



928,280 



474,076 



555,136 



194,973 



193,735 



74,227 



51,309 



183,768 



52,386 



360,580 



3,117,125 



2,851,876 

 2,255,132 

 2,245,257 

 2,061,459 

 2,031,558 

 1,882,611 

 1,714,410 

 1,557,724 

 1,599,973 

 1,707,850 



Bbls. 



9,222 



24,757 



3,318 



30 



72 



37,399 

 41,351 

 77,945 

 55,23ti 

 34,487 

 27,28-2 

 57,419 

 68,380 

 75,020 

 59,363 

 43,976 



Corn Meal. 



Hhds. 



9,951 



7,970 



416 



17,337 



18,372 

 17,891 

 19,178 

 16,869 

 18,619 

 14,781 

 17,192 

 14,705 

 15,157 

 17,449 



Bbls 



076 

 015 



092 



2,313 



56,496 

 3.%070 

 51,666 

 78,958 

 51,19-2 

 36,979 

 51,297 

 70,415 

 36,863 

 32,274 

 40,693 



Comparative Inspections of Wheat Flour m the pnnci- 

 pal Districts for seven years. 



TEARS 



1«31, 

 1830, 

 1829, 

 1828, 



18-27, 

 1S26, 

 1825, 



Albany 



and 

 N. York. 



97b,93o 

 870,585 

 705,175 

 686,704 

 652,035 

 527,700 

 446.611 



Philadel- 

 phia. 



474,076 

 473,876 

 297,206 

 333,764 

 351,517 

 342,250 

 294.2Sf! 



Balti- 

 more. 



ooo, lob 

 597,804 

 473,604 

 546,450 

 572,759 

 596,348 

 5 i 0,42: 



Vn-ginia 



and 

 Dist. Col 



75U,40(j 

 775,911 

 621,824 

 525,746 

 +381,05: 

 436, 16& 

 490.74( 



•ievf 

 Orleans 



.J60,5aO 

 133,700 

 157,323 

 152,593 

 131,096 

 129,094 

 140,546 



■ Falmouth omitted. 



Cluantities of Flour and Grain exported from the United 

 States, from Oct. 1, 1821, to Sept. 30, 1S31, inclusive. 



1831, 

 1830, 

 1329, 

 1828, 

 1827, 

 1826. 

 1825, 

 1824, 

 1823, 

 1822, 

 1821, 



Wheat 

 Flour. 



Barrels. 



l,805,-20f 



1,225,881 

 837,38; 

 860,80c 

 865,491 

 857,82r 

 813,906 

 996,792 

 756,702 

 827,86: 



1,056,119 



Statement of the Quantity and destination of Wheat Flour exported from the United States, com- 

 mencing 1st October, 1821, and ending 30th September, 1831. 



TULIPOMANIA IJf HOLLAND, AND IN VIRGINIA. 



[Extract from Depping's Evening Entertainments.] 

 Before we have done with the interesting history 

 of the commerce of past ages, I will give you 

 some account of a very curious kind of traffic, 

 ■which was for some time in fashion in Holland, 

 and even produced a sudden kind of revolution in 

 that country. These particulars will convince 

 you of the truth q£ my observation, that men rare- 

 ly know how to keep within the bounds of mode- 

 ration, and too frequently fall into reprehensible 

 excesses. Fortunately, the instance that I am 

 about to adduce was of less consequence than those 

 which 1 have already related, and only shows the 

 absurdity of men when under the influence of any 

 prevailing fashion or folly. 



Among the native productions of the east, intro- 



duced into Europe by means of its relations with 

 India, was a flower which the Turks call tulibant, 

 and which received in England the appellation of 

 tulip. It appears to have been well known in this 

 part of the world so early as the middle of the six- 

 teenth century. These flowers, you know, though 

 of every variety of color, are not the greatest or- 

 naments of our gardens, being surpassed by many 

 others in beauty and fragrance. Nevertheless, the 

 tulip, about a century after its transplantation into 

 Europe, acquired a consideration which no other 

 flower ever obtained; so that it was valued far 

 above even the most precious metals. The lovers 

 of flowers seemed to be seized with a sort of mad- 

 ness, which has been aptly denominated tulipoma- 

 nia. I shall endeavor to give you a clear and sim- 

 ple explanation of the folly which this word de- 



