272 ANIMAL KESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



COMMERCIAL STATISTICS OF ANIMAL PRODUCTS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES : A REVIEW OF A PORTION OF THE RE- 

 PORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS 

 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1877. 



BY G. BROWN GOODE. 



The following review of the character and commercial values of animal 

 products used or produced in the United States is intended to supple- 

 ment and explain in part the preceding "Catalogue of the collection 

 illustrating the animal resources of the United States," made under the 

 direction of the United States National Museum for the International 

 Exhibition of 1876. The statistics have been arranged with a view to 

 a concise exhibition of the extent and location of the trade in all sub- 

 stances of animal origin. The classification is uniform with that em- 

 ployed in the catalogue. 



An attempt is made to show 



1. The amount of imports, the countries from which the products are 

 imported, and the ports through which the import entries are chiefly 

 made. 



2. The domestic consumption of foreign products. The table of im- 

 ports entered into consumption is more detailed than any of the others, 

 and from this have been taken many statements which were not else- 

 where given, as, for instance, the amounts of coral, whalebone, chemicals, 

 and specimens of natural history. 



3. The exports of domestic products, the ports from which they were 

 chiefly shipped, and the countries to which they are sent. 



4. The statistics of foreign eAports or of the exports of products not 

 directly of domestic origin. 



No account has been made of the indirect and transshipment trade. 



LIVING ANIMALS. 



The total value of living animals brought into the United States does 

 Aot fall far below $2,200,000. 



The value of the miscellaneous importations of living animals is placed 

 it $1,048,465. Of this amount Quebec, Ontario, &c., supply $1,452,457, 

 and Mexico $129,897 (no doubt chiefly sheep), Nova Scotia and New 

 Brunswick send $30,124, Germany $13,262, British Columbia $13,762, 

 England $6,184. The remainder comes from the British East Indies 

 ($1,389), Cuba ($818), Brazil ($133), Scotland, Honduras, Belgium, Chili, 

 China, France, Guiana, Colombia, and Uruguay. The latter countries 

 probably send chiefly animals for menageries and gardens. 



Animals for breeding purposes are imported to the amount of $419,170. 

 The larger proportion ($291,960) comes from the British Provinces 



