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amount paid for brush is 13,672,837. The value of 

 brooms of all kinds manufactured, is $6,622,285. 



But very little brush is exported, an insignificant 

 amount being sent to Cuba and South America, but the 

 export of ready made brooms is annually increasing. 

 The value of the brooms exported in 1873, was $131,319 ; 

 this increased in 1874 to $170,185, and in 1875 it reached 

 to $204,696. 



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