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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. " "
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