1840.] SENATE— No. 36. 173 



APPENDIX 



A. 



ANNUAL IMPORTS OF BREAD STUFFS. 



*'It is ascertained that the flour imported into Boston in one year, 

 amounted to 418,000 barrels, and corn with other bread stuffs to 

 2,000,000 bushels. This quantity is the average annual amount import- 

 ed into Boston for three successive years, by an accurate abstract from 

 the documents. To this quantity must be added one third for the out- 

 ports, which is a low estimate. At the price of 87 75 for flour, and 80 

 cents per bushel for corn ; it would amount to 86,453,333 paid by the 

 State in a single year. This was for the year 1S3G. The importa- 

 tions were larger in 1837 ; and at the prices then paid of $11 per bar- 

 rel for flour, and one dollar per bushel for corn, with the addition of 

 one third for the outports, the amount would be 88,797,338 paid for 

 bread stuffs in that year. The western parts of the State are supplied 

 directly from Albany, and the towns upon Connecticut river by way 

 of Hartford. We may, therefore, estimate the sum paid by two thirds 

 of the population of the State, in a single year, at nearly nine millions 

 of dollars." 



The imports of flour into Boston in 1839 was 449,068 barrels, and 

 of corn 1,607,492 bushels. 



B. 



ON SOWING WHEAT IN DRILLS OR BROADCAST. 



I subjoin here some extracts from an account of an experiment on 

 the difference between drilled wheat and wheat sown broadcast, given 

 in Hunter's Georgical Essays, vol. iii. p. 528 : 



" On the 12lh October, the land was measured and equally divided; 



