The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-27

| S2lo, 944 $50. Noting these facts, and in
palmer illustration of the same, we sum-
Marie them in the following tabular state.
| ment:
Quantity in gals 1957s2- 81 1853 700 90 IN ~
Cost first and 20 2rl }24 $50 81 $40 s2 65. 0,
Cost to retailer ID 6lS l0.9121.5 l20 534 -;
Cost TO consumer - l25 296 2l5 9ii $50 2i 0G9 OF
! Our population being &c, 600, 0OO the result
is that we consumed in the last fiscal year
spirits to the extent of 1.59 gallons per capita,
retailed at cost Of So OF, or about 50 Is per
gallon. Probably, however, not mora than
one-eighth OF our population q, 600, 000) used
| spirits habitually, and hence to the drinking
public the cost for this one article of luxury
will be at rate eight-fold the cost per capita,
or s4S Ii, or say, for emphasis, 81 per week.
This is evidently a large bite on. of the aver
age earnings of the great mass of humanity
involved
The Corn Crop.
New York Produce Exchange Weeklv.l
The average crop of the past eight years
has been 9S9, 25i, S75 bushels, and the eX-
ports 80, So. 523 bushels, leaving d yearly
average OF 90S, 3S9, 1852 bushels for consump-
ton, which is 81, 1886, 352 bushels more than
the aggregate crop OF 1874 The exports of
maize since Sept. /, 1874, have been about
5000, 900 bushels, and if they shall much ex-
coed the average exports of the last eight
years there will be deficiency in the amount
left for home consumption Of $4,000, 600 to
1O0,0O0,0 600 bushels The winter in the West
has been unprecedenty severe.
There has been a slaughter of more than
the usual number of swine, which have taken
about y bushels per head far fattening
averaging about 100000 to 100000 600
bushels for this purpose The herds Of cattle
have also required, for fattening, larger
quantity of corn than has been used in former
winters The consumption in the manufacture
OF domestic distilled spirits, starch, grape
sugar and strip, feeding purposes in all cities
Of the country, have made heavy drafts upon
the crop. The oat crop was 30,0O0O0O bushels
short Of the average, the deficiency Of which
must be mostly filed by corn.
The visible supply is now about Z, 400 600
bushels, including 2,244 900 stock in New
York, against 6, 1913, 704 bushels visible supply,
including 66i, 4S7 bushels stock in New York
at the corresponding date in 1874. The bar
ley crop will be absorbed for brewing pur-
poses, and a limited amount only can be
utilized for feeding purposes Wheat is plen-
titul and cheap, but is dearer than maize per
pound, and its use for feeding animals, ex-
cept the Touring offal, is not to any consider
able extent practical. With the usual con-
sumption and export, there is evidently de-
ticiency of about 100, 100000 bushels, or
nearly one-eighth Of the crop Of 1874.
The crop in the commercial States was
about 4G9, 600, 900 bushels in 1874 VS.. 529, 000
600 bushels in 1873 deficiency of $4,000
0C0 bushels.
1t was said of the maize crop of 1873 that
there was no State in which the crop is of any
general importance, which reports the yield
Of 1872. The crop of 1874 is not only less
than an average, but it is less than the previ-
ous one, with no old corn of consequence to
supplement it. Corn in South Carolina and
Louisiana is 81 OF per bushel in Mississippi;
81 OF, and in most of the New England States |
is held at 81 10Gl IS per bushel. In Kansas,
where corn was worth, in 1878, 2S on Deem
Der 81, it was in December last worth Ole; and |
in Missouri, which was afflicted with drouth,
the price of corn was 74c, and in Nebraska,
where the crop was cut off by grasshoppers,
74c was the usual price. Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska will have drawn, and will con-
-inue to draw largely, on the 400 O00,O0 Of
aggregate crop in the commercial States.
THE OPERA" Trovatore and Les No
,es de Jeanette will be played tomorrow
ri ght, and in honor of the reopening, the
association Of which Mr.. Momas is the ac-
head have reduced the prices of
omission to one dollar for all reserved seats,
he other tickets being sold for seventy five
fifty and twenty-five cents respectively.
There is great demand for tickets of admis.
ion to the grand gala performance which is
o be given on Monday next, under the aus
,ices of the French Charitable Associations of
his city. Halevy's magnificent opera, "Le
teine de Chypre," which has not been sung
lere for several years, will be performed by
II the available strength Of the company.
here will doubtless be an immense attend
nee, and an early application for seats is just
ow in order.