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NEW YORK (CITY) 389 RECEIPTS OF LIVE STOCK SINCE 1860. CALENDAR YEARS. 1860 1861 1862 1863 1S64 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 , 1870 , 1871 , 1872 1873 1874. . . Cattle. 284,077 270,561 275,212 279,485 303,767 296,419 861,016 379,372 447,445 457,709 Sheep. 518,750 512,336 519,316 1,139,596 1,415,811 1,470,828 1,468,878 1,316,408 1,179,518 1,206,715 1,165,653 Live hogs. 559,421 1,148,209 1,101,699 517,673 582,194 1,000,113 887,351 901,725 1,310,280 1,923,727 2,019,904 1,774,221 Calves. 30,465 85,709 75,621 77,991 62,114 72,604 91,529 116,457 121,171 115,130 116,015 104,719 ESTIMATED VALUE Of the principal Articles of Domestic Produce received at New York during the Year 1873. ARTICLES. Quantity. Value. Breadstuffs: Flour, bbls 8,518,887 $22 840 266 Wheat, bush 84 624,931 gl'qQT'oQfl Corn bush. 24 680 831 1 7 27fi *&9 Oats, bush 11,012,924 5 506 462 Barley, bush 1 820 576 o'-icc'nrio Bye bush. . .... 849873 Peas bush. 172 845 Malt, bush 571 '494 Beans, bush 213520 Com meal, bbls 155744 Corn meal, sacks 15l'652 Seeds, bush. 212 916 .' $105,592,400 Pork, bbls 181,241 $2,718,615 Beef, bbls and tea 88,202 687,636 Lard, bbls. and tcs Lard, kegs 409,203 28,977 13,094,206 208,839 Cut meats, pkgs 563,903 28,195,150 Tallow, pkgs . : 58,193 4645440 Grease pkgs 22,987 484,727 Stearine, pkgs 22,836 856,850 Dressed hogs, No Cheese, boxes -.. Butter, pkgs 107,191 2,007,663 948,520 1,500,674 16,864,369 19,918,920

  • Eggs,bbls

471,893 8,258,127 $97,483,053 Live hogs No 2 019 904 $15 149 280 Naval stores: Tar, bbls 88275 $114,825 Pitch, bbls 2,109 5,272 Eosin, bbls. . . 473,213 1,419,639 Spirits turpentine, bbls Crude turpentine, bbls 67,805 11,158 1,195,848 111,583 $2,847,167 "Wool, Ibs 16 650 933 $6 660,373 Ashes, casks 7412 855,796 Petroleum, bbls. . . . 8,640,000 21,000,000 "Whiskey, bbls. . 195 805 9,790,000 Oil cake, pkgs 185,101 740,400 $88,546,569 Total estimated value ... $259,568,469 There are other articles which would swell the aggregate value to more than $300,000,000. These include buckwheat flour, fish, apples and other fruits, vegetables, cattle, sheep, horses, hay, hops, cotton, tobacco, oils, coal, wood, and numerous articles of minor importance. Cotton is brought here from all parts of the south for shipment. Immense quantities of coal are required to supply the European steam- ers as well as for domestic use.

  • About 70 dozen to a barrel.

ESTIMATED VALUE Of the principal Articles of Domestic Produce exported from New York during the Year 1873. ' ARTICLES. Breadstuffs : Flour, bbls >.. Corn meal, bbls. . . . Wheat, lush Corn, bush Oats, bush Barley, bush Eye, bush Peas, bush Barley malt, bush. . Beans, bush Oatmeal, bbls Clover seed, bags . . Provisions : Pork, bbls Beef, bbls. and tcs.. Lard, Ibs Bacon, Ibs Tallow, Ibs Butter, Ibs Cheese, Ibs Stearine, Ibs Grease, Ibs Oils, gallons: Cotton seed "Whale Sperm Lard Linseed Fish oil Naphtha Petroleum, refined , Benzine Oil cake, Ibs Naval stores : Crude turpentine, bbls. Spirits " " Eosin, bbls Pitch, bbls Tar, bbls Sundries : Hops, bales . . . Wool, bales . . . Whiskey, bbls. Ashes, casks . . Hay, bales .... Alcohol, bbls... Total estimated value. Quantity. 1,661,606 181,445 27,753,714 16,168,152 49,535 40,120 1,018,038 815 75,756 970 66,594 199,558 102,416 188,683,441 807,044,283 61,801,282 8,587,876 89,477,888 2,426,688 6,845,884 64,698 419,779 10,970 319,682 8,327,822 138,276,472 196,878 123,208,797 865 20,108 3,499 22,167 8,290 10,110 1,205 1,194 28,854 31,990 Value. $10,800,439 41,630,571 10,347,617 24,767 50,150 956,955 172,665 1,141 189,890 67,900 998,910 $65,875^562 $3,043,259 15,914,898 26,148,764 1,147,960 11,682,072 479,177 $65,383,710 "$199,229 25,879 734,613 8,776 207,798 25,180,145 19,688 2,464,160 $30,088,481 $1.095 10,054 1,227,246 8,747 83,127 808,800 46,176 47,880 70,065 $4,092,958 $166,720,925 There are in New York and Brooklyn 63 stationary grain warehouses, including stores, with a storage capacity of 11,450,000 bushels, and 33 floating elevators, with a transfer capa- city of both in the aggregate of 195,000 bushels per hour. The operations in Spanish and leaf tobacco for the last five years were : CALENDAR YEARS. SPANISH, BALES. LEAF, HHDS. 1 Taken for consumption. in * | H 69,354 97,886 67,485 115,224 124,544 ! l 1870. 59,215 75,982 144,531 82,610 103,466 56,360 82,044 127,827 95,456 111,685 15,999 18,854 12,792 29,496 16,650 48,555 82,818 58,119 94,865 73,994 16,488 12,659 6.569 li;885 46,445 1871 1872 1873 1874 The receipts of wool and the deliveries of naval stores for consumption since 1867 have been: