The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-06-23
Our Products. Home W,a.,,

differences are compiled. facts and
From tabular estimate of the c,o..
appears that Ohio produces NOR. ,,h. ioAS t
other State in the Union, viz. 70 700 '.a' 'han Gay
Oelns nearly one fifth of the produce Of ,bo 'o'''
New York produces the most BorI., sO"u'y'
VIZ l'so2'9s2 bushels of the former q, o's
nuns Of the entire produce, and 24.oo "a" 'N''
OF Tue ailer' or more than one sixth or II, 'u0'f
pennsylvania raises the most Rvo md ""0e
that IS to say, three-eghts of the ;o,,, -, '""0s
former and nearly oGe-thrd of the latte, '' " S'
tennessee grows the greatest quoD,iv e
Corn VIZ 67,s3s, AT bushels, or nearly ~ "''1
oi the total produce of the whole UnioD ''''s'''H
The new State of Michigan is ady0,.i,
her agricultural career. The first year IN , ppg!"
supported herself without importing ,rh.., """o 'a
in ls4O' her production was 2,l57 los bn., ''@
IN 1913 her crop is estimated a, 8 2os o., ''d
being surplus ofneary three million, T'''''i
dispose OF abroad Ou'nes 10
The crops ofTown and Wisconsin H..
since 1870. "''e EebIed
Mr. Williams proves 10 denor.,..,.-
po'K Of oreads'utisis consumed in the eoDD,,.. -'''
they are produced "NeS
The annual Export OF Flour and Wba.,
United States, TO all countries on tbo r.. """ N
globe from 1890 to the presen, time b,s 40, WV
cd to 4'5OO,OOO bushels ANNUALLY md c,,n."
years has not amounted to A 500 Oo0 h,.L.,. ~
annual export, therefore, to all the world 49,
o"s,'"en'y second part ofthe cropOrls42 On, 3,
nua' export Of these articles to Great Britain :. l..
'han one-hundreth part Of that crop, being ,or,
quart Of brcadstutf annually TO each inbab;,,,,.rl
empire or other grains than Wheat. the r,,.;..
mand Is equnl to less than one three bsoa,oJ ~
hiI'etn part "Sucb has been the rors,, l.,
(ior our ceral grans) during our whole ey.,o,..
ha''on' never taking off more Than mere fraction ,
orr annual produce such has it been alike vb., -.
tariff laws were relaxed, and when thew war. 4.
most stringent; such has it been when IN, ,.L,-
rying trade OF the world was opened IN s-,l !
II been when the South American Ren,bi., ,..
CLING Tor existence, gave us markets. sr,b -.
been when Europe was desoated BY the y,,. ory.
po'eo"' such mas 1t been when starving million, =.
broad were crying for bread
Even II the corn laws of England were ,.,o,ros
and trade was open and free, the American FAM.
could not supply her market, until he can placs him
sell on level with the serfs of Russia and Poland
III he can live as poorly housed and fed as they II
he can endure TO 20 as meanly clad as they. if bsc
content himself to have his children grow up around
him as ignorant his cattle, then he car raise wbs
ana sell II in competition with an European ser"
The average price of wheat in the market Of Men
York, FOR the last thirty years, has been one dolr
and thirty cents per bushe while at the grain e,p,-
ing marts OF Europe it has been less than one dols
What is our Home Market for grain; What has IL
been? What does it promise to be? We have seen
what the foreign market is.
The census OF the population OF the United siss
in ls4o showed that 79l ,739 persons were empIOys
IN manufactures and trades; and applying the u,a
rules OF calculation, it is not too high an estimate
say that four millions of people directly and indirectly
derive subsistence from manufactures and being d.
veried from the production of grain become consuz.
erS' Al the too low estimate of FIVE bushels each,
Ut Is in reality nearer seven )these four millions Of
persons consume twenty millions of bushels Of wheat
than four times the annuaI export to
all The world, and more than twenty times the aver.
age export TO Great Britain The single State Of 3
Massachusetts is better market for -four than al The
world besides. General jackson in his memorials
letter TO DR.. Coleman. in 1924 said-"Take from 4
agriculture six hundred thousand men, women and B
children and you will at once give market for more
breadstuffs than all Europe now furnishes" The \
truth Of this assertion is now verified in the case
Our principal customers from nbr0't
are Great Britain, Brazil, and Cuba. .HassarhH'dh
supplies market douby or treby good IS the
first .Neto Jersey purchases from other States twice
as much Brazil.-A single round Of the whale hsh'
cry ships furnishes superior market to Cuba; nrd
no other Power or Dominion on the face Ofths globe
consumes one half as much of our breadstufs as tho
city Of Pittsburgh.
Some OF the leading Locofocos are 'furousy m'''
because they have not obtained the offices they d"