clvi INTRODUCTION. 



The following table shows the receipts of flour and grain at St. Louis during the past fourteen years : 



TABLE M. 



Receipts of jlour and grain at St. Louis for fourteen years. 

 (Compiled from statistics of St. Louis Chamber of Commerce.) 



As New Orleans is the only exporting point for the grain carried down the Mississippi river, the 

 following table is appended, showing the receipts at that port for thirty-one years : 



TABLE N. 



Receipts of Jlour and grain at New Orleans for thirty-one years. 

 (Compiled from statistics of New Orleans price current.) 



