ANNUAL KEPORT—COMMERCE. 
77 
From this statement (table No. 1) it appears that a popula¬ 
tion of little more than two millions in 1850, has increased to 
four and half millions in 1860 and nearly six millions in 1865 ; 
that the product of wheat, eighteen million bushels in 1850, 
has increased to nearly fifty-five millions in 1860, and to 
eighty-five millions in 1865, and that the product of grain, in¬ 
cluding wheat, etc., one hundred and fifty-three million bush¬ 
els in 1850, has increased to three hundred and thirty-two and 
a half millions in 1860, and to four hundred and thirty-nine 
and a half millions in 1865. 
“ It also appears that less than one-sixth part of the popula¬ 
tion of the United States has raised more than one-half of the 
wheat, about one-third of the corn, about one-third of the 
grain, including wheat and corn, which, in the year 1865, was 
produced in all the states and territories of the United States. 
“ The total value of the grain crop of the United States for 
the year referred to was, by the commissioner of agriculture, 
estimated at $1,118,904,876, in which estimate the crop of the 
five states referred to was put down at nearly one-third of the 
whole—$391,596,000. 
“The actual yield is, possibly, greater than the amount 
claimed in the statement (table No. 1). The governor of 
Iowa estimates the wheat crop of that state for 1867 at twenty 
million bushels, and for 1868 at twenty-five million bushels. 
The census returns made to the secretary of state of Wiscon¬ 
sin indicate that the wheat crop of Wisconsin in 1860 was over 
twenty seven million bushels, while the secretary of the State 
Agricultural Society estimates the crop of 1861 at twenty to 
twenty-five million, and of 1863 at twenty-five to thirty mil¬ 
lion bushels. 
“ In the main, however, it is thought that the statement is 
substantially correct. In order to test it, the following tables 
have been prepared with reference, more especially to the 
wheat crop, designed to show, first, the quantity for export or 
shipment east, and, second, the quantity actually shipped. 
“ It is estimated by the ‘ Mark Lane Express,’ that in Eng¬ 
land the average consumption of wheat is six bushels to the 
