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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...Bacon, (hhds., )--672,000 462,000 '. Lard, (kegs, )---1,246,000 759,000 " Beef, (barrels, )--60,000 43,000 We have here a reduction in two years of. more than forty per cent, and yet the population of the West must have grown in that period more than a million. Enormous as was the reduction in those years, it seems likely to be fully maintained in the present one, if we may judge from the following statement of the exports of the year commencing 1st September, 1850-51, as compared with those of the same period in the current year: Here is an average fall of almost one sixth, following closely on the heels of a reduction in the two previous years of forty per cent., and accompanying a decline on the New-York canals that will certainly bring the receipts to forty per cent, less than the point at which it stood three years since, and below that at which it stood six years since! Six years since, the West also exported very largely of hemp and lead, and it may interest our readers to see what was the effect of the tariff of 1842 on the power of the Mississippi Valley to pay for merchandise by aid of the food fed to growers of hemp and miners and smelters of lead, and what is now the effect of the tariff of 1846. There was exported during the following years, Of Hemp--Bales. Of Lead--Pigs. 1841-2 1,211 1846-7 60,238 1842, 473,000 1847, 659,000 1842-3, 14,878 1847-8 21,584 1848 571,000 1848, 606,000 1843-4, 88,042 1848-9, 34,792 1844 689,000 1849 608,000 1844-5 46,274 1849-50, ...25,116 1845 732,000 1850, /....400,000 1845-6 30,980 1850-51.... 19,586 1846, 785,000 1851, 825,000 In the half of the present year that has elapsed, hemp has remained nearly stationary, but lead has declined twenty per cent., and the export trade in that commodity appears to be coming r...
