Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-19
from The Baltimore American
THE GROWING CROPS-BREAD
STUFFS.


in relation to the condition and promise of
the growing wheat crop Maryland. The
partial reports which have reached US arc
untavorable, but hopes were entertained
that propitious season might yet impart
ali improved aspect to the appearance of
the fields.
A letter TO the Editors of the National
Intcligenccr, from the mountain region Of
Virginia, dated tho 2Sth ultimo, says
"Our wheat crop is miserable, and beyond
recovery. In some instances the wheat
land has been broken up, and prepared for
oats or corn. But the farmers are having
fine season for sowing oats and planting
corn, which | trust will continue and com.
pensate somewhat for the almost entire fall
urc of the wheat crop.
The market Of BrcadstuflS is on the de-
cline, in all the principal Atlantic ports, IN
consequence oflhc large stocks offoreign
wheats on hand, and the expectation Of
supplies from the interior OH the opening
Of the canals and rivers. 1t is stated that
there are about 100000 bushels Of wheat
and rye, and from 10000 barrels o. flour
at Pittsburg, waiting to be forwarded to
Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania canals
In the city Of New York, the Western flour
is said to amount to 10000 barrels, and
the North River just about to open. The
stocks Of F Foreign Wheat in that market un.
sold are said to amount to at least half
million Of bushels. In Baltimare there is
unsold considerable amount OF Foreign
Wheat.
A correspondent ofihc New Y ork Amcri-
can, who writes on the side of the distillcr-
les, admits that the quantity of grain disiil-
led annually in the cities of New York and
Brooklyn alone, amounts to 100000
bushels!
The following remarks on the subicct
of imported wheats arc from the Philadel-
phia Commercial List Of Saturday.
FOREIGN WAEAT.
"Thc first supplies (of fWhcat) may, and
ono doubt will, be drawn from Bond has
''ia England, but as most Of The wheat
''in Bond has been there for three or
'four years, It's not likely that any guam
''tity Off really good quality can be there
"obtained."
The above is from an article which APP
peared in our paper on the lst of October
last, relative TO the ''Foreign and Domes-
tic Grain Trade" Of this country. We.
claim attention to it at present, in conse-
qucnce Of the circumstances which have
since attended that trade. 1t is we'll known
that the first arrivals of wheat last fall, were
from Bond in England, and none OF it
proved perfectly sound. The same was
the case with the heavy importations which
succeeded from the Moth of Europe, with
out the Baltic. A large portion Of this
wheat was taken as 1t arrived by millions,
who had then some domestic wheat on
hand, and from the mixture they were en-
abled to make flour that went into pretty
general consumption. When our interior
communications closed for the winter, and
domestic wheat could no longer be had to
mix with the foreign, flour was made ca
clusively Of the latter, which however, has
been found not to suit the taste of the
American consumer, and at prices much
below that of domestic flour, the sales of 1t
through the winter have been very incon-
siderable. The favorable sales of foreign
wheat in the fall, have produced heavy i'm.
portations in the interim, and the stock ID;
New York is now considered large, but, an
fortunately, not onc-tenth of it is admitted
to be perfectly sound. Millcrs that could
not buy in the winter, as communication
with their mills was closed, are unwilling to
buy now, (exccpt some very selectsamples)
because they cannot obtain domestic
Wheat to mix with the foreign. Nor is
there the least prospect that the Nlllcrs
around New York. Philadelphia and
Baltimore will be able to obtain such a
quantity of domestic wheat, as would ena-
ble them to work up much of the foreign
before another harvest. Thus are we pla-
ced in the singular situation OF possessing
in the three principal flour mar,s, as mucn
wheat as, if sound, would make quantity
of -four equal to inspected in tpo reeks
last spring in these three places together
and on which We are relying for bread, but
which is unavailable, because ofits quality,
and because A1illers possess not the means
ofimproving the quality to any extent.-
Had the imported wheat proved sound, it |,
would now find pretty ready market at
fair prices. But, under these circumstan.
ces, it is TO be aPprchcnded that impor.
.ers will sustain losses on it as it is under
stood that less than 81 per bushel they will
,ot, on an average, be rcmunerated on la;c
arrivals. Information Of the state of our
markets has already gone out, that will
top further shipments from Europe, and
md circumstances may arise, that will in.
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