222 STATISTICS or WHEAT CULTUBE. 



Professor Beck examined thirty-three different samples from 

 various parts of the United States and Europe, and he gives the 

 preference to the Kobanga variety from the south of Russia. 

 There would probably be a prejudice against it in this country, 

 from the natural yellowish hue of its flour and bread. 



The value of the vegetable food, grain, potatoes, rice and apples 

 exported from the United States within the past few years is thus 

 set down : 



Dollars. 



1847 57,970,356 



1848 25,185,647 



1849 25,642,362 



1850 15,822,273 



To this has to be added nine or ten million dollars more for 

 tobacco, 72 million dollars for cotton, and 180,000 dollars for 

 hops and other minor agricultural staples making the value of 

 the raw vegetable exports about 98 million dollars. There is 

 further the value of the products of the forest, timber, ashes and 

 bark, tar, &c., which are equal to nearly seven millions more, as 

 shown by the following figures : 



Dollars. 



1847 .. .. 5,248,928 



1848 .. .. 6,415,297 



1849 .. .. 5,261,766 



1850 .. .. 6,590,037 



It appears from an official document of the American Treasury 

 Department, that the average value of the breadstufis and provisions 

 annually exported from the United States from 1821 to 1836 in- 

 clusive, was 12,792,000 dolls. ; in 1837 and 1838, about 9,600,000 

 dolls. ; from 1839 to 1846, 16,176,000 dolls. ; and for the last 

 seven years as follows : 



Dollars. 

 1846 27,701,121 



1847 

 1848 

 1849 

 1850 

 1851 

 1852 



68,701,921 

 37,472,751 

 38,155,507 

 26,051,373 

 21,948,651 

 25,857,027 



Oat of the wheat crop in the United States in 1846 of 110 

 million bushels raised, 10 millions were used for seed, starch, &c. ; 

 72 consumed for food, and 28 million exported. The 460 million 

 bushels of Indian corn raised, were thus disposed of; exported to 

 foreign countries 22 million bushels ; sold to and consumed by 

 non-producers, 100 million ; consumed on the farms and planta- 

 tions of the producers for human and animal food, seed, &c., 338 

 million bushels. 



The United States now produce about 120 million bushels of 

 wheat, and nearly 600 million bushels of corn. Their surplus of 

 wheat, for export, may be taken at 20 million bushels, and of ludian 

 corn an almost unlimited quantity. They export about one and a 

 quartor million barrels of flour, and about one million of bushels 



