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EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AIW) FISHERIES. 



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Table YIIL— Exports of sperm oil, whale oil, and whalebone from the Umited States fw 



the last seventeen years. 



Table IX. — Stoelc of oil and bone on hand the Ist of January for the last eighteen years. 



Table X. — Statement of the average prices of sperm and whale oil and whalebone. 



Average price of sperm oil for 1882, 106 cents. 

 Average price of sperm oil for 1883, t,7 cents. 

 Average price of whale oO for 1882, 53 J cents. 



Average price of whale oil for 1883, 54 cents. 

 Average price of bone for 1882, $1.71. 

 Average price of bone for 1883, $2.87. 



