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From 1803 to 1814, inclusive, the agricultural exports of the 

 U. S. amounted to |315,729,000, or about three-fourths of all 

 the domestic exports. In 1812, of ,$30,032,109 domestic ex- 

 ports, !|24,555,000, were the products of agriculture. The 

 gross products of agriculture in the U. S. last year, were 828,- 

 448,000 bushels vegetable food, with proportionate crops of 

 hay, cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, silk, flax and hemp — employ- 

 ing the labor of about four millions of persons.* 



The entire domestic exports of the U. S. for the year ending 

 June 30th, 1844, were $99,715,179. Of these, $3,350,501 were 

 products of the sea; of the forest, $5,808,712; of manufactures, 

 $10,617,556; of agriculture, $79,938,410, leaving but $19,777,- 

 169 for all other descriptions of labor ^ and exceeding the export 

 of manufactures nearly seven fold. Of these agricultural ex- 

 ports, $11,239,437 were vegetable food. Massachusetts, though 

 extensively engaged in manufactures, employs not less than 

 90,000 persons in the cultivation of the soil, and last year pro- 

 duced 9,678,000bushels vegetable food, 706,000 tons hay, 103,- 

 000 lbs. tobacco, 425,000 lbs. sugar, and 37,000 lbs. silk.f 



The agriculture of Essex County gives employ to about 

 8,000 persons, and in 1840 yielded 658,555 bushels vegetable 



more than three quarters of this was from grain. In 1810, therefore, between five and six 

 millions of bushels of rye and corn must have been made into spirits. In Pennsylvania 

 alone, in that year, there were three thousand three hundred and thirty four distilleries, 

 producing no less than six millions five hundred fifty two thousand two hundred and eighty 

 four gallons of spirits, principally from grain. Add to this, the quantity distilled from 

 molasses and that imported and consumed here, and we find that the annual consumption 

 of spirits in tlie United States amounted to thirty one millions seven hundred and twenty- 

 five thousand foiu" hundred and seventeen gallons, or about four and a half gallons for each 

 person. Pitkin's View, p. 101. 



fThe difterent items, are, wheat, 210,000 bushels; barley 141,060 do; oats 1,687,- 

 000 do; rye 660,000 do; buckwheat 114,000 do ; indian corn 2,816,000 do; potatoes 

 4,050,000 do; hay 706,000 tons; tobacco 103,000 lbs; sugar 425,000 do; silk 37,- 

 000 do. 



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