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I am induced to believe that at least one-fourth part of the crop of 

 Indian corn raised in the United States, is sold by the farmers to 

 non-producers, for domestic and foreign consumption, leaving three- 

 fourths of the crop, for the use of the farmers themselves. Estima- 

 ting one-fourth of last year's crop at one hundred millions of bushels, 

 and sixty cents per bushel as the average price for the whole United 

 States, or for all the different markets in which it is sold by the far- 

 mers, it results that the amount of sales of Indian corn by them to 

 purchasers of all kinds, is sixty millions of dollars, being twenty-five 

 millions of dollars more than the same crop would have brought in 

 1840. 



It is difficult to estimate the proportion of the crop which has 

 been and will be exported to foreign countries. Previous to the year 

 ending June 30, 1846, the quantity of Indian corn and meal ex- 

 ported did not average a million and a half of bushels annually. The 

 actual quantity of each exported for the four years and nine months 

 ending June 30, 1845, w^as as follows: 



Indian corn, 3,474,109 bushels. 



Indian meal, 1,132,749 barrels. 



The total t^a/we for the year ending June 30, 1846, (the quantity 

 not being yet given,) compared with the previous year, shows a large 

 increase, as follows: 



Exports. 1846. 1845. 



Indian corn, $1,186,663 $411,741 



Indian meal, 945,081 641,552 



Total, $2,131,744 $1,053,293 



Increase for 1846, $1,078,451, equal probably to about two mil- 

 lions of bushels of Indian corn and meal, and making the total quan- 

 tity exported in that year, about four millions of bushels, including 

 both corn and meal. 



If we estimate the surplus of Indian corn which we can spare for 

 export to foreign countries at four per cent on the crop of last year, 

 which exports however are liable to be checked by the scarcity of 

 vessels to transport the grain and the high prices of freight, we have 

 seventeen millions of bushels of maize for export; or taking less 

 than two-thirds of this quantity, we may ship to Europe, and else- 

 where, twelve millions of bushels of maize and Indian meal, which 



