st grazing land of the country
tributary to her market, without regard to the question whether it be
one or twelve hundred miles off.

The foregoing butchers' estimates are as exact as our present means of
information can make them. Large numbers of uncounted sheep are consumed
within the city limits, and the unreported calves are many more than
come to light in statistics. Besides these main staples of the market
which have been mentioned, there is consumed in New York an incalculable
quantity of game and poultry, preserved meats and fish, cheese, butter,
and eggs.

Mr. James Boughton, clerk of the New York Produce Exchange, has been
good enough to furnish me with a tabular statement of the city's
receipts of produce for the year ending April 30, 1864. Such portions of
it as may show the amount of staples, exclusive of fresh meat, required
for the regular supply of the New York market, are presented in the
opposite column.

A less important, but still very interesting, class of products entered
New York during the same period, in the following amounts:--

+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| COTTON. | SEED. | ASHES. | WHISKEY. | OIL CAKE. |
|-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------|
| _Bales._ | _Bush._ | _Pkgs._ | _Bbls._ | _Sacks._ |
| 18,193 | 7,343 | 1,401 | 21,838 | 2,329 |
| 16,299 | 3,196 | 1,657 | 26,925 | 14,040 |
| 13,080 | 901 | 1,175 | 19,627 | 20,120 |
| 11,043 | 892 | 1,551 | 18,083 | 19,583 |
| 12,874 | 2,082 | 884 | 15,781 | 4,810 |
| 19,332 | 1,189 | 790 | 17,656 | 17,500 |
| 26,902 | 2,318 | 1,280 | 20,098 | 10,441 |
| 24,870 | 8,193 | 1,393 | 39,594 | 4,973 |
| 22,010 | 8,441 | 1,163 | 32,346 | 2,676 |
| 28,242 | 24,216 | 1,498 | 34,475 | 2,115 |
| 39,302 | 31,765 | 1,457 | 35,575 | 2,963 |
| 33,538 | 5,686 | 1,044 | 22,873 | 4,536 |
|-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------|
| 265,685 | 96,222 | 15,293 | 304,871 | 106,356 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+

New York, during the same period, exported,--

Of Flour 2,571,744 bbls.
" Wheat 15,842,836 bushels.
" Corn 5,576,836 "
" Cured Beef 113,061 pkgs.
" "