Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-05-03

COMPETITION BETWEEN THE EAST AND
TIE WEsT.-At one Of the farmers meet
ings in Boston, in speaking OF the effect the
railroad would have in bringing down the
price ofagricultnral products, Gen. Hol
man said, awe certainly are not to get as
much for our products as we have done:
we have got to compete with the great State
Of New York, and perhaps the far West"
Boston CultiratOr.
<And have our Yankee brethren any doubt
on this subject! We opine it would hardly
endure journey Of few weeks through
our "openings" and praires. The 'great
State Of New York ;" forsooth! Why even
ten years hence, the agricultural products
of the Empire State will bear to those of
Illinois alone, to say nothing Of the mighty
States now formed and to be formed, on the
Mississippi. Not is not with Neao York
the agriculurists of New England are to
compete They will find the hands, with
strength to win the prize will come from
these Western Uilds.
To the sons Of New York and New
England, who delight in this as the land of
their adoption, and who know from observa-
ton and experience the agricultural cap
abilities Of each, the idea Of competition
with their Eastern friends is supremacy
ridiculous We suppose Eastern farmers
will continue the cultivation and improve
ment of their little farms for their amuse-
ment-- as sort Of gardening: but farming,
farming, is not to be prosecuted Eas; of
the Aleghanes. Does any one in his senses
suppose that large crop or short one
there, will at all affect the market few
years hence in any Of The great staples? So
faras the supply ofthe nation is considered,
it will matter little whether the East raise
any thing or not: and as for money making,
we can run you to death. Take wheat,
for instance. Even in "the great wheat
Countrywide Genessee vallev-.some Of
the farmers are whining, some cursing and
all complaining, because they can not get
81 80 orsS2. per bushel for their wheat; and
here, if man Of responsibility would offer
to contract TO pay serenity fve cents per BUSH
ell for all the good wheat a farmer would
raise for term Of years, delivered on some
navigable water, he would soon find his
hands fnll, or we greatly misjudge. Our
farmers make money by raising wheat at
IS cents and pork at SO. Can Eastern
farmers do it, adding the cost Of transport
tation which is in their favor? Talk Of com
petition! You know nothing Of the west;
if you did you would as soon think of COM
petition between Jersey City and New
York.
And Eastern farmers need not congratu-
late themselves that the Vest is so far off.
The cost Of transportation to N. Y. city
will not exceed 81 % cents on any thing,
and on most articles Of produce will be but
little if any over so cents per 100 lbs, and
this is all the advantage the Eastern farmer
has. 70 counterbalance this, look at the
unequaled fertility of our soils, at least2O
per cent greater than those Of the East;
the low price of land; and the ease Of Gull
tivation.-Which scale preponderates?
We repeat what we have so often said
before, that the East should not make
agriculture its dependence. 1t is for their
advantage the advantage of the Union
that manufactures be made the great
object Of their attention. We will buy from
them the articles they can manufacture
cheaper than we, and in payment will! feed
them with the fat Of the land.
Union Agriculturist.
From the ChicarO ArricuLtlerGGSt