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Notes on Victor Drummond's Report on the 
the bushel. For 1878 the crop was estimated at 124,027,000 
bushels. 
There was not any appreciable increase of acreage devoted 
to cotton in 1878, the amount being 12,056,855 acres in 1877, 
and 12,266,785 in 1878 ; but the yield for 1878 was estimated 
at 5,200,000 bales in 1878, as against 4,000,000 in 1877. The 
average of all bales received at Liverpool for five years is esti- 
mated at 450 lbs. of lint ; the weight calculated last year in the 
agricultural department was 460 lbs. 
There is also an increasing cultivation of jute in the Southern 
States, especially in South Carolina, where some of the planters 
are substituting jute for rice. 
The 1878 crop of tobacco was secured under exceptionally 
auspicious conditions, yielding, it was said, about 410,000,000 
lbs. 
The vast area of land capable of producing cereals, and the 
proportion of production to population, in Mr. Drummond's 
opinion, prevents any appreciable rise in price arising from the 
exportation of these articles ; but the foreign need of live stock, 
fresh beef and mutton, salt beef and pork, lard, cheese, and 
butter, is exercising a much greater effect in appreciating 
prices. 
" Great attention is now being paid to dairying in the United 
States. The total number of milch cows in the different 
States in January 1878 was 11,300,000, valued at 298,499,866 
dollars, or 62,187,472?. 
" The value of the annual production of cheese and butter is 
estimated at 300,000,000 dollars, or 62,500,000/. The produc- 
tion has increased 33 per cent, within the past year, and since 
the introduction of the American factory system in the manu- 
facture of them, they have become important objects of export, 
the foreign sale amounting during last season to 13,000,000 
dollars (2,708,333/.) for butter ; and 14,000,000 dollars 
(2,916,666/.) for cheese. The exporters this year have paid 
more than 1,000,000 dollars (258,333/.) for freight, or enough 
to support a weekly line of steamers to Europe. They have 
paid 5,000,000 dollars (1,041,666/.) freight to the railroa'ds of 
the country, and milk pays nearly as much more. 
" The dairying interest is one of vast and increasing magni- 
tude. Its rapid growth in the East will be equalled and sur- 
passed in some of the States of the West. In 1840, in the 
great dairying State of New York, the entire dairy product, 
including milk, butter, and cheese, in value amounted to a little 
less than 10,500,000 dollars, and in all the States to about 
34,000,000 ; but in 1869, according to the Census of 1870, 
