276 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 

 The amount of domestic exports is shown in the following table : 



Fresh beef is shipped as follows : 



Ports. 



Amount. Value. 



Xew York pounds. 



Philadelphia do . . . 



Boston do. . . 



Portland do. .. 



39,230,400 $3,608,940 



9, 896, 260 983, 249 



xl, 000 10,000 



3,330 ; 334 



Total. 



49, 210, 990 



,523 



All the fresh beef goes to England and Scotland. The former receives 

 30,906,940 pounds, valued at 83,014,779, and the latter 9,304,050 pounds, 

 valued at $937,744. l 



Salted beef goes principally from [New York, Philadelphia, Boston, 

 Baltimore, San Francisco, Portland, and Brazos de Santiago, Tex., 

 and is sent to almost every country, England (19,727,882 pounds), 

 Scotland (5,887,774), the British West Indies (2,774,804), Germany 

 (2,185,990), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (1,297,662), and British 

 Guiana (1,042,150) receiving the largest proportion. 



Mutton goes from New York to England (219,928 pounds) and Scot- 

 land (129,440). 



Pork goes chiefly from New York (39,239,234 pounds), Boston 

 (10,763,062), Huron, Mich. (7,748,660), Baltimore (3,961,045), Philadel- 

 phia (2,144,761), and Portland (2,930,359) to England (19,793,191), the 

 British North American Provinces (17,990,540), the British West Indian 

 Provinces (D,867,490), Scotland (2,847,346), Porto Kico (2,923,975), Ger- 

 many (1,251',166), and the Dutch West Indies (1,126,169), as well as to 

 all other quarters of the globe. 



Bacon and hams go chiefly from New York (253,481,647 pounds), Boston 

 (112,656,704), Philadelphia (72,738,161), Portland (10,541,136), Baltimore 

 (6,146,098), and Huron, Mich. (2,275,004), to England (322,016,729), Scot- 

 land (31,193,969), Belgium (30,846,038), Germany (23,715,093), France 

 (23.167,236), Cuba (10,813,912), Sweden and Norway (5,278,228), Ncther- 

 lands (4,442,709), the British Provinces (3,632,464), the British West 



1 The Journal of tlie Royal Agricultural Society of England (1877) states the import 

 of fresh beef from New York and Philadelphia in the iirst four months of 1877 

 (22,812, 12d pounds) to have exceeded tlie whole import of the preceding year (19.838.895 

 pounds). 



