Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-12-01

Toll crop; but we ought 10 purchase
british calicoes, though We can max 70
them ourselves, and rs cheapIv A abe
will; rs shall be seen below.
The American consumption requires
the equivalent Of % millions Of barrel,
of flour; the foreign demand takes of
less than 900, 900. The domestic de.
msnd Is settled; the foreign, small a. i,
-, unsteady. In 1917, the value Of all
The vegetable food exported. was S22,.
394, OOO-in 1929, only 9.O79.. 62.t-
The much complained Of fluctuations
in the value Of cotton, present nothing
like this. The foreign -four trade can
not, at any time, be depended on. We
have exported more than 500, 600 bbls.
to Cuba and Hayti in one wear, and in
another less than 10000. We have sent
several hundred thousand to England
IN one year and not barrel, as il were,
IN the ensuing one. To this wretched
uncertainty, with our continual gan.
ing at things abroad, instead Of attend
ing TO things at home, we are indebted
for three-fourths of the perplexities, or
embarrassmeDts. which the farmers of
the United States have suffered, as
must appear manifest TO every reflect.
ing mind. As il regards foreign trade,
we are
Pleased with n rEttle-tieklcd with a straw"
Now As to the meats, Of all Sorts
The consumption and waste, exceed
l-2 lib. for each person a day. The
gross quantity required is then 2.I6O,
100000 pounds. equal to 1900, 600
barrels OF beef or pork. The great.
est export that We ever made Of beef
and pork was in 1905, $40, 600 barrels.
In 1899, only 10000; or %, 600, 600
of lbs. just an hundredth part Of the
domestic consumption.
II thus appears, that the vegetable
food OF the United States exported. i.
about Gath part Of what the home de .
nand requires; and Of meats, only a
hundredth part. 1t is then the HONE
MARKET that should mainly occupy the
thoughts Of a republican statesman.
This great market is best enc ouraged
or protected, by dirisions Of labor. If
all were farmers, raising their own
bread and meat, there youId be no home
market; and -four, for the foreign one,
would not sell for more than two dol
lars barrel, IL for SO much, delivered
at our sea ports. The English could
hardly take it as a gift, because Of the
duty. unless in times of scarcity, tho
delivered free Of cost for freight.
But were all farmers,we should have
no Giles. How would the account
stand then: New York, alone, con
sumes the equivalent Of one-third Of
ALL our exports Of -four; Baltimore,
10000 barrels, or three fifths Of all
that we sent Ia the West Indies last
year; and much more than was export.
ed direct to the British West Indies.
when the ports were opens Baltimore.
and her adjacent factories, also con
sumo the equivalent Of $4,000 barrels
OF beef or pork about three four,hs OF
the rhois export Of last year. Yet we
have heard senseless Maryland far.
mer wish that Baltimore Ibis markell
was sunk in the basinn lie might as
we'll have wished that the mills which
prepared his grain were DESTROYED
The people OF the cities Of Boston.
New. York, Philadelphis, and Balti-
more, employ twice as many men as
farmers, graziers, gardeners, &c. as
Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
except the United States) employ
Here is a specimen Of that division Of
labor just above alluded to. Large
cities cannot exist unless the manufac.
turing and mechanic arts prosper in
them. IL is the products Of industry
thus applied, which obtains food and
other supplies for them; and this
causes that invaluable interior com
merce, which prevails in every ciyiIiz-
ed nation, and must, more or less, ex.
Isl III all populous countries. Two Of
the greatest cities in tie world, Nan.
kin, 10 China, and Jeddo, ia Japan, are
thus maintained; vast amount of
home trade IL transacted at them, the
foreign beiug Of no account. And At
London, the greatest commercial city
"a the world, the interior or home
trade Is az least t~enty times greater
than the foreign one. We have in our
own country two beautiful types Of the
principles that we teach, in Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati. They have no foreisn
trade; bot lands and houses in then.
aud their neIghLorhood, bear a full
comparison with the value of lands and
houses az Baltimore. and its neighbor.
hood. The manufactures of Ph,lsdel.
ph'a. that -, those that are supplied
With Philadelphia labor and capital,
and which centre IN that city, have
been estimated ~ S25. 900. 600 annual
Including rec, es.
he br'ish isiaf'ds nov go their supplies a
o,if Ho'tr from tngiaf'i, ~ M Dsaish 80 suetsh
Wet lndigs, carried 10 british vessels Per.