Our Productive Growth

Every man must take peeuliar pride in eontemplating the vastness of the productivo industry of the Western States. lts increase is so wonderful that a frequent examination of the figures is necessary to its complete comprehension. In the year 1872 the States of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minwesotíi, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, produced, óf cereals, 1,020,000,000 buehels, or about 62 per cent. of all the grain produced in the United States in tbat year. Of this, ever 156,000,000 bushels were of wheat, of which. these States consnmed oalv aboui '86,000,000, leuving some 70,000,"000 bushels for export f rom these States. They produced, also, in that year, 700,000,000 bushels of corn. The Western and Northwestern States shipped to market, the same year, 213,000,000 bushels of wheat, of which over 74,400,000 went to foreign countries, over 41,000,000 to the New Eagland, and the balance to the Gulf States. The year 1873 saw an ircreased acreage, and 1874 surpassed all the preceding by far, both in the number of new acres bronght under tillage, and in the aggregate yield of most of the oereals, and this in spite of droughts and insect depredations, which in quite extended localities destroyed all vegetation. -