INTRODUCTION. 



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The following is an exhibit of the receipts of flour and grain at the port of Toledo during the past 

 five years : 



TABLE G. 



Receipts of flour and grain at Toledo for five years. 



On Lake Michigan, Chicago stands foremost as a general grain-shipping port. The following table 

 shows the shipments of Hour and grain from that port during the past twenty-six years: 



TABLE H. 



Shipments of flour and grain from (Chicago for twenty-six years. 

 (Compiled from statistics of the Board of Trade.) 



As a grain-shipping port, that of Milwaukie, on Lake Michigan, is the second in importance. The 

 shipments of flour and grain at this port during the past nineteen years were as follows: 



