During the year 1811, merchants of New Orleans advertised for sale the following articles: Kentucky, flour,[371] horses,[372] pork, whiskey,[373] lard,[374] oats,[375], Monongahela and Kentucky flour,[376] tobacco,[377] hemp,[378] hempen yarn,[379] and packing cloth.[380] From October 5, 1810 to May 5, 1811 there passed the Falls of the Ohio the following number of boats and articles: Boats--Number 743. Flour--bbls. 129,483 Bacon--lbs. 604,810 Whiskey--bbls. 9,477 Cider--bbls. 2,513 Pork--bbls. 13,562 Apples--bbls. 2,513 Oats--bu. 4,020 Corn--bu. 47,795 Merdhandise $355,624 Cheese--bbls. 5,141 Beans--bbls. 606 Plank--feet 1,483,130 Butter--lbs. 24,691 Live hogs 708 Cider, Royal--bbls. 1,350 Lard--lbs. 465,412 Onions--bbls. 218 Potatoes--bu. 1,811 Hemp--cwt. 630,562 Dry fruit--bbls. 263 Yarn } Cordage}--lbs. 113,015 Fowls--number 1,207,338 Shoe thread--lbs 2,592 Country linen--yds 8,140 Horses--number 292 Beer--bbls. 227 Tobacco--hhds. 2,311. "and a number of articles too tedious to be calculated. A Mr. Bowman, a pilot at Jeffersonville, took 106 boats over the Falls of the Ohio, during the aforesaid period of whose cargoes no notice is taken in the above. The foregoing is a return made by the regular pilots, who all agree in stating that during the high water at least one-third as many more passed without their assistance. This estimate, therefore gives the whole probable number of boats, that passed the Falls, at nearly 1200, wafting the rich produce of the western parts of Pennsylvania, and Virginia, with those of the State of Ohio, and a part of Kentucky, to the markets on the sea board."[381] In 1812 New Orleans received from the "upper country", cider royal of Kentucky,[382] Monongahela flour,[383] Kentucky flour,[384] tobacco,[385] hemp,[386] whiskey,[387] hempen yarn,[388] flour from Pittsburg,[389] Kentucky bagging,[390] and white rope.[391] The flour received at New Orleans for a time must not have been sufficient to supply the demand as is shown by the following article, "We are happy to state that several boats with fresh flour have arrived--that from the enormously high price of $20 per bbl. it has been offered at $16--much more is expected very soon--So that we may fairly calculate in a few days or weeks to have our loaves increasing to their usual size."[392]