INTRODUCTION. 



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Reducing the flour and meal to bushels, the total exports of grain during the past two years, as 

 given in detail in the foregoing tables, compare as follows: 



Years. Bushels. Value. 



1862 76, 309, 425 $83, 692, 812 



1803 77, 396, 082 88, 597, 064 



Of this amount there were shipped to Great Britain and Ireland alone, for the year ending June 

 30, 1862, 34,102,735 bushels, and in 1863 47,082,026 bushels. The total value of the grain exported 

 to Great Britain in 1862 was 847,916,266, and in 1863 856,059,360. When it is taken into consid 

 eration that in 1825 the total value of the grain and Hour exported from the United States to all 

 foreign countries amounted to only 85,274,241, some idea may be formed of the rapid growth and 

 development of this trade. 



The progress of the early export grain trade of the country is demonstrated by the following 

 table, showing the exports of grain and Hour from the United States to foreign countries each year 

 from 1790 to 1817 : 



TAHLE C. 



Exports of flour and grain from tlie United Stales to foreign countries from 1790 to 1817. 

 [Compiled from United States documents.] 



From 1790 to 1817, the period embraced in the foregoing table, the grain exported from the 

 United States was chiefly the product of the Atlantic States. Vermont exported flour and grain of 

 all kinds. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, 



