IV.-ANNUAL Inspection of Wheat and Rye Flour, and Kiln-dried Corn Meal, in the principal Flour Marts of the United States, from 1800 to 1840, inclusive. YEARS. Philadelphia. New York. Baltimore. Wheat Rye Corn Wheat Rye Wheat Wheat Wheat Wheat Corn Wheat Wheat hhds. brls. brls. brls. hhds. brls. brls. brls. brls. brls. brls. brls. brl. bris. brls. brls. brls. brls. 50 3,554 426,012 1,896] 159 2,048 1803.. 1808.. 1809.. 1810.. 363,955 3,543 22 2,460 163,312 1811.. 530.052 20,014 8,647 137,449 2069 533 552.699 21,130) 6,178 188,866] 379 1079 1813.. 359,555 6,780 4149 3,122 389,617 38,736 3,374 5,499 291,393 5,216 14,671 271,541 22,902 7,486 7,064 394,976 7,677 ཤ-21ས1:87:::: : 15 754 980 300 15 81,743 40 55,565 111,526, 28,496 52,036 114,735 139,713 5.887 364 9,152 125,668|| 251,024 72,000 79,336 133,700 46,406 137,708 27,628 49,931 307,610 3204 51,429 482,525 4404 42.921 496,194 2221 49,984 21,508 86,768 Note. The returns for the city of New York, in 1837 and 1839, are incomplete, the returns being only from May 1st to December 31st in those years; consequently the returns are estimated for two years. V.-DESTINATION of Wheat Flour and Rye Flour, Indian Corn Meal, and Indian Corn, Exported from the United States, annually, from 1800 to 1843, inclusive. Commencing the 1st of October in each Year. On referring to the Inspection Tables it will be observed, that the great increase in the supply of flour brought to market, is to ports east of the Potomac, as no material change is apparent in the average inspections of the ports of Virginia for some years; and in the district of Columbia, what Georgetown has gained by the opening of the Ohio canal to the Shenandoah valley, Alexandria has lost. VI.-STATEMENT of the Exports of Flour and Wheat from the United States, from the Year 1790 to 1843, and also of the Average Price of Wheat in England, and of Flour in Philadelphia, and the Population of the United States during the same period. In 1837, when the previous harvest in the United States yielded under an average crop, the imports of wheat amounted to much more than double the quantity ever exported in any one year; viz., to 3,921,259 bushels, imported from various countries. In 1838 there were imported 896,560 bushels of wheat, and 12,731 bushels of flour. + The population returns for the present year, 1815, may be placed at about 20,000,000. PROVISIONS AND LIVE STOCK EXPORTED. The rearing of horned cattle and of swine, for provisions, for tallow, for lard, and for their skins, has not been neglected in the United States. But, unless it may be the pork and lard of the north-western states, the quantity salted or prepared for foreign markets, has scarcely increased. This will appear from the following table. QUANTITY and Value, the Produce of Animals, Exported from the United States, in each Year, from 1791 to 1844. The increase of exports during the year ending the 30th of September, 1842, and during the nine months ending the 30th of June, 1843, has been attributed in this country to the British tariff, which came into operation in the latter end of 1842. In order to show the fallacy of such an assertion, it must be remarked that the exports of 1842 were effected before the British tariff came into operation; that the duty on butter, cheese, and tallow, were not reduced in that tariff; that no live cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, or mules, were exported at all to the United Kingdom; and that the exportation of beef, pork, hams, bacon, lard, tallow, butter, hides, &c., were chiefly to the following countries, viz., in 1842, and for the nine months ending the 30th of June, 1843. The imports into the United Kingdom of the above articles, the produce of the United States, have been of comparatively unimportant value; of those on which duties have been reduced in the tariff of 1842, none are of any consequence in the amount imported except lard, and France has taken more than double the quantity of lard from America that has been imported from the United States. Lard and lard oil will hereafter continue to be one of the principal animal products which America will export. Not for food, but for burning in lamps, and for the use of machinery and of manufactures. PORK TRADE OF CINCINNATI. "Twenty years since (says a recent writer on this business), we are told, it was so insignificant, that no one house was engaged in it exclusively, and the whole number of hogs then cut in one season did not exceed 10,000. At that period the hogs were killed (as isolated farmers now kill them in the country) out of doors, and then hung upon a pole. The butchers charged the farmers twelve and a half to twenty cents, per head, for killing them, and the offal as at present. From this insignificant beginning the business has increased, so that the number of hogs killed this year (1842) will probably reach 250,000, and the butchers now frequently pay ten to twenty cents premium per head for the privilege of killing them. And instead of a few houses incidentally engaged in the business a part of the year, there are now twenty-six pork houses exclusively engaged in it, and which |