PROFITS. 



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Statistics of the United States Treasury Department, 

 we exported during the fiscal year ending June 30, 



These figures show the great advance made in 

 prices during the last forty years. Though the quantity 

 has declined, the price has consiantlj^dvanced. ^kis 

 increase is best sh<(wn byHhe exj^}rJs*>Pthe last-*teve'n 

 years. In 1&98 tbMtaiantity exported ^approximately 

 only three^i^^jl^slnpped in 1888, but the average 

 price perNjtoroKT >urs advanced to approximately seven 

 times the price offered in 1858, and nearly one and 

 three-quarter times that of eleven years ago. 



A glance at the prices paid by the dealers will per- 

 haps be of greater interest. Messrs. Samuel Wells & 

 Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, furnished figures to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for the years 1889 to 1896 inclusive, 

 to which are added those of the years 1897 and 1898 

 through their courtesy. 



