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ArPENDIX. 



It is interesting to compare the course of prices of farm products with that 

 of wages. The Aldrich Report segregates the prices of farm products, but com- 

 putes the index numbers only from 1860. Waldron's Handbook contains a 

 table, credited to the Voice, computed in a manner similar to that of the Al- 

 drich Report, but which gives index numbers from 1840. It is based on the 

 wholesale prices in New York City and is given below. Diagram X. (page 

 635), is prepared from the column of gold prices. 



RELATIVE COMBINED AVERAGE OF NINE FARM PRODUCTS.* 



* Wheat, rye, oats, corn, uplan<l cotton, retinins sugar, Kentucky loaf tobacco, fresh 

 beef and fresh jiork. 



