British American Colonies| 272,299| 294,891| 244,072| 252,380
France | 612,641| -- | -- | --
French West Indies | 28,966| 5,554| 5,480| 7,902
Hayti | 40,257| 10,903| 31,504| 43,867
Cuba | 50,046| 7,154| 5,584| 5,611
Spanish West Indies | 17,780| 6,429| 7,074| 2,285
Madeira | 4,856| 4,358| 6,321| 7,006
Cape de Verds | 1,634| 501| 455| 838
Mexico | 5,928| 11,633| 9,736| 14,964
Honduras | 10,686| 4,125| 4,725| 5,912
Central America | 550| 4,180| 746| 2,573
Columbia | 39,403| 32,251| 41,072| 47,477
Brazil | 270,473| 328,129| 295,415| 374,711
Argentine Republic | 10,684| 6,599| 4,901| 22,612
Chili | 5,977| 5,129| 2,848| 4,327
South America | 2,128| -- | 40| 200
West Indies | 4,902| 3,984| 1,702| 4,079
Africa | 25,728| 4,617| 5,524| 5,430
North-west Coast | 764| 1,180| 858| 2,593
Other ports | 29,866| 35,017| 18,949| 19,158
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Total--Barrels |4,382,496|2,108,013|1,385,448|2,202,335
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Average price | 5.95| 5.35| 5.00| 4.77
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Wheat, where the soil and the climate are adapted to its growth, and
the requisite progress has been made in its culture, is decidedly
preferred to all other grains, and, next to maize, is the most
important crop in the United States, not only on account of its
general use for bread, but for its safety and convenience for
exportation. It is not known to what country it is indigenous, any
more than any other cultivated cereals, all of which, no doubt, have
been essentially improved by man. By some, wheat is considered to have
been coeval with the creation, as it is known that upwards of a
thousand years before our era it was cultivated, and a superior
variety had been attained. It has steadily followed the progress of
civilisation from the earliest times, i