EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
The following was the market price of Produce at Cincinati,
in January 1818
dols cents dols cents
Apples per barrel 2 50 Porter, new, and cask 8 0
Bacon per lb 10 Porter bottled per
Beef per cwt 3 50 dozen, without bottles 1 50
Barley per bushel 75 Porter bottled, per dozen
Black salt, per cwt 5 00 with British bottles 4 0
Butter in kegs per lb0 20 Strong beer with barrel 7 0
Ditto fresh per lb 0 31 Ditto without barrel 6 50
Cheese(Ohio), per lb 0 15 Pork per cwt., corn fed 5 0
Cider racked, with
barrel 5 00 Pork per cwt, mash fed 3 50
Corn meal, per bushel 50 Salt Beef, per bushel 2 0
Eggs per dozen 0 183/4 Sugar, country per lb 0 15
Flaxseed per bushel 0 50 Ditto Orleans, per
Flour, best, per 100 lb 21 0
barrel 5 50 Shingles, per 1000 3 50
Ditto, fine, per
barrel 5 0 Soap, per lb 0 10
Gin country,per gallon1 121/2Tobacco, per 100 lbs 15 0
Hay, per ton 14 0 Tallow, per lb 0 14
Loaf sugar, refined
per lb 36 Wheat, per bushel 0 75
Lard, per 100lbs 12 Buck wheat, per bushel 0 37
Oats, per bushel 0 371/2 Indian corn, per bushel 0 33
Porter, old and cask 9 0 Whiskey, per gallon 0 621/2
Shoes from 3 to 4 dollars per pair; Wellington boots, from 8
to 9 dollars; Hessian boots, from 11 to 12 dollars; superfine
blue cloth, from 13 to 15 dollars per yard; making a coat,
six dollars; American hats from 7 to 10 dollars; mechanics
board and lodging, per week, 3 dollars.
A good milch cow, 15 dollars; a good working horse, 40
dollars; and a sheep, 3 dollars and a half.
