The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-11-13

,pOken OF, ana neIu up loI- out i'he"s
Britain excludes our -four, though we
might furnish it at much less price than
her own costs her people, even when sne
has fair and full crop-but we ought 10
purchase British calicoes, though we can
make them ourselves, and as cheaplY as
she villas shall be shown below.
The American consumption requires
the equivalent OF % millions Of barrels oi
fiour--the foreign demand takes of less
than 100000. The domestic demand Is
settled-the foreign, small as It is, un-
steady. In 1917, the value Of all the
food exported, was $22, ,574, 900
in 1929, only 9,O79, 1923 The much
complained of fluctuations in the ralue oil
cotton, present nothing like this.-ihe
foreign flour trade cannot, at any time,be
depended on. We have exported more
than 800, 900 barrels to Cuba and Hayf'
in one year, and IN another less than 50,
900. We have sent several hundred
thousand to England in one year, and not
barrel. as it we're. in the ensuing one.
To this wretched uncertainty, with our
continual gaping at things abroad, instead
of attending to things at home, we are IN
debtcd for three fourths Of the perplexi-
ties, or embarrassments, while the farm
srs of the United States have suffered, as
must appear manifest to every refieetlng
mind As it regards foreign trade We are
PLEASED ,cith arattle-tickled pith a sira'c'
Now as to meats, Of all sorts. The
consumption and waste, exceeds IL 10.
for each person day. The gross guam
tity required is then 2,l6O,OOO, COO lbs. !;
equal to / millions bbls. OF beef or pork
The greatest export that we ever made oi
beef aud pork, was in l805--24O, 900 bbls.
In 1929, only &c, ,O00-or % millions OF
pounds, just an hundredth part Of the do
mestic consumption.
1t THUS appears, that the vegetable food
of the United States exported, is about
gath part of what the home demand re-
ouirss-and of meats, onlya tooth part
1t is then the HOME MARKET that shouit
) mainly occupy the thoughts of republl'
can statesman.
This great market is best encouraged
or protected by division ef labor. II al
were farmers, raising their own bread ant
, meat. there ,could be no home market ant
, -four, for the foreign ono, would not sci
for more than two collars a barrel--if to-
so much, delivered at our sea-ports. 1ht
. English could hardly take it as g!tf, be
cause Of the duty, unless in times OF scare
ity, though delivered free Of cost To-
, freight But were all farmers,we shoult
: have no cities. How would the accoun
stand then New York, alone consumes
{ the equivalent Of one third of all our ex
ports otfiour-Baltimore, 10000 bb!s
{ or three-fAhs of all that we sent to tn
West Indies last year-and much NOR
: than was exported direct to the Britis
; West Indies, when the ports were open.
: Baltimore, and, her adjacent factories, al
, SO consume the equivalent of 10000 bbl
of beef or pork-about Sd Of the 'choI
r export of last year. Yet we have hear
f senseless Maryland farmer, wish, tha
/" Baltimore (his market) was sunk in TN
3 basin!'' He might almost as well hav
wished that the mills which prepared hi
I grain for bread were destroyed. Ih'
. people ofthe cities of Boston, New York
/ Philadelphia and Baltimore, employ twice
: as many men as farmers, graziers, gard
3 eners, sc. as all the people of Asia, Afri
a ca, Europe and except the United States
employ. Here is specmeo of that di
. rision Of labor just above alluded to-
3 Large cities cannot exist, unless the man
f ulacturlng and mechanic arts prosper ]
them-l 1t is the products of industry, thu
applied, which obtains food, and other su
: plies, for them--and this causes that in
f valuable interior commerce, which pre-
$ walls in every civilized nation, and must
: nore or less, exist, in all populous coun
h tries. Two of the greatest cities in til
world, Nankin, in China, and Jeddo, !
1 Japan, are thus maintained--a vast q
: mount Of home trade is transacted at then
: the foreign being Of no account. And I
London, the greatest commercial city
J, the world, is, at least twenty times great
|, er than the foreign one.
(To be Continued.)
kIncludiuv rice sc.