New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-04-29
The Farming Observation-Disclosures
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tho Report of the Committee on Agriculture was
under consideration, PHILIP RIPLEY OF Hartford
c. addressed the Convention "a follows:
Mr. PRESIDENT: ! am well aware that the
time Of this body Of bu.,ness men, should not be
occupied by the hearing Of long Speeches, and
that no argument Is necessdTy to convince any
practical and candid inquirer that 1t IS absolutely
impossible TO find any safe, permanent, ard salts
factory foreign market, for the immense amount
Of surplus agricultural crops which the rich and
prolific soil of our vast country ia capable OF pro-
ducing. But wish very briefly TO offer some EVIL
dence to the friend. Of free trade" with Eng
land, that they are very far from being safe in es-
timating her OF their profitable or even
accessible customers, for permanent purchaser. OF
Brent stuff.
1t i, supposed by many men in TINS country,
that were the Corn Law, Of Great Britain repeal
ed OF so modified as to admit at fixed and per-
nanent low rate Of duty, OR wheat. corn and
four that the foreign supply OF these articles
would chiefly 60 from the United States, and that
the speculative demand, which sometimes reaches
US, after the succession OF short crops fully estab
hshes the proposition.
Allow me. sir, TO assure our Western farmers
and all Others, that these opinions and hope. are
surrOu ndcd with great danger and deluson.-
There are local and natural objections, perma
nentiy existing, over which il is impossible for US
10 have any control, which will always, in time OF
general peace, prevent any extensive and uniform
supplies being sent from this Country to England
The great and prolific grain-growing districts OF
Europe, have a climate well adapted to the safe
preservation Of long succession Of good crops
and when not wanted for home use or expectation,
the merchants in all the large towAs the coast
may lay up wheat in their warehouses with as
much safety as they can hemp or iron, and it is
thus accumulated frequently to the amount Of sew
eral millions Of bushels, at prices ranging from,
3G 20 60 cents Of our currency; and this state Of
the trade will continue to exist so long agricu
tural labor can be had in great abundance where
wanted at prices varying in different districts from
I'd. to I'D. yer day, without any additional con-
tingencies Of lodging and board and Of these
facts you have had most satisfactory evidence, in
several of the Reports already presented to this
Convention. This will show you vhcrc England
can find supplies. Now for the mode of obtain
ing them. From London to all the ad accent ports
the Continent, mails made up and dcs-
patched by steamers every day in the year The
distance to Osiend being 0 hours to Antwerp "a
hours, to Amsterdam SO hours, aud to Bremen
and Hamburg less than days; and overland
mails will reach Genoa, Trieste aud Odessa, in
about the same time that orders from Bostos
would reach Charleston, Mobile and New-Or-
leans.
When the scarcity in England requires it, the
corn merchant is always ready 20 draw his orders,
and from these sransries on the Continent, can
furnish immediate supplies and before the we'll
intended orders for this Country have reached
Boston, even at an average passage of - days,
abundant supplies may be already arriving in Eng
land and whatever goes from this Country, under
such circumstances, is generally attended with ru
inou. loss To the shipper, while the British
merchant and hs Cout,nental CORES pondent have
quietly furnished the supplies and pocketed sat
isiactory profits in the operation.
Whenever this uncertain and luctua,ing demand
occurs, it is attended with unnatural excitement
and great hazard-as recent and fatal instance
will show YOU.
News of unfavorable weather and probable loss
eli the crops, was brought out by one of Cunards
steamers TO Boston last autumn. which excited eX-
tensive speculation, and at high rates large pur-
chases were made. On the subsequent arrival OF
the Great Western at New-lork with more anthem
tic accounts Of the crops, the important advices
that England and Scotland had unexpectedly been
IL
the harvest was successfully approaching its ter
mnation, and flour in our markets at fell
dollar per barrel, and in its attendant consequent
ces involved the merchants mlers and Western
Banks in fatal ruinous losses.
do not doubt but some shipments of Bread
Stuh's to England have paid handsome and salts
factory profits; but such is the uncertainty and |
attending the trade that il cannot |
be sac or permanent-and | appeal to the mer
chants most experienced in the business to write
up their books for the last 10 years, and If their
profit and loss accosnt does not show an appalling
aggregate on the wrong page of the ledger, shall
be most happily disappointed.
Let Us now refer to the m0.ire which England
may have for obtaining her supplies Of corn from
ire Continent
Since the general peace in Europe Eng land has
been constantly engaged IN nourishng and extend
ing her commercial intercourse with especially the
smaller States of the Continent. aud the policy
pun sued has resulted in steady increase OF their
mutual trade Her principal supplies of whca,
are obtained from Germany, Holland ard Belgium.
and her exports to these three customers for four
years ending 9Th July, 1910, were as follows:-
viz. in
ss, amounting to $1,000 which at :! Sc s,s:s s
so so q s sSSdStS . " t tsgsi g.
This trade is chiefly carried on in English yes.
sells, and il constitutes a mutual combination OF
interest between the manufacturer, merchant and
ship owner, who can all enisy their profits, both
in the expectation of English fabrics and in the
turn .t wheat payment, as II tends to keep down
their Continental rivals in manufactures, makes
prompt and acceptable payments to the perchan,
for the goods exported, and furnishes freight both
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