Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-04-29
PRODUCTIONS OF THE WEST

Cheese, butter and lard, are becoming
very important articles oil expert from our
lake country, but we regret that enough
care is not taken in their manufacture OF
packing, TO give 10 their owners the profit
They might claim from them. Much Of oui
western butter is only fiji for what is termed
grease buttcr-and our cheese and LARD
is Likewise too often put up SO carelessly us
materially TO depreciate lis value
lew weeks ago, speculation com.
rncnccd IL, Boston, in the article Of cheese,
which Immediately extended to New York,
and OF course the article went up. But
how long this rise may be maintained is
uncertain. Still, cheese is one of those
things The West cannot lose BY for long
time, und al no time can it be made as
cheap IN any part Of the world as in the
lake region. The transportation too, is
cheap in comparison 10 either wheat or
flour when the relative values of both are
compared. Last year, tho value of the
cheese that passed the canal and the Hudson
waI set down at over half u million Of
dollars, though the price was not high
And during The past winter about 400, 900
IUSs uiIScu az hiodiiJ Wy iuIifOuus
Would not our farmers do well to turn
their oitention more 10 butter, cheese and
wool, than they have done? Buyers too,
al The different points on the lakes, would
do well TO insist strongly that the quality
and packing should be improved, and they
may rest assured that they will be the
gamers by the traffic, as well as the farmers
themselves and the consumers
In England, American cheese is driving
the Irish cat Of the market, and there seems
to be a strong hope that quantities of ii will
find market in China. Whether this
hope is based on good ground or not, We
canRo! say, but il strikes US that The rise
IN tho price Of the article must have been
founded on it. These foreign markets are
uncertain, but where there are many Of
them they may counier-b balance each other,
and as we may add the West India markets
to those Of Great Britain and China, a
more steady demand for this article may be
expected.
A country that exports but one single
article Of its products, is always IN an
unfortunate position, subject 10 constant
yasciIalions in its revenue, and continual
exal,a,ions and deprcssions, that change
tho tone of its people from extravaganza 10
penuriousEess, and back again increasingly.
Ii is on this account, highly important TO
us, that we encourage the export, and
production for export Of new articles, and
we cun see no reason Why wool, cheese,
beef, lard, butter, and all those products
that can be raised so much cheaper at tho
West, aud so much better too, should not
become prime articles Of export. We feel
Satisfied this cnn be done to advantage, if
if they pre- only properly prepared for their
respective markets, and thus the producer
and fIcior are both bound to attend by the
strongest interest. The wealth Of the West
has been greatly wasted at the outset, but
that is natural-now, hoa ever, that men
know more OF the requirements for foreign
trade, it is TO be hoped that this wealth will
be poured abroad in greater abundance than
il has heretofore.
Pork sells at Detroit at 1913, and but
little In market. They will be obliged TO
import il this season, 10 some extent. 1t
is estimated that at the same place there is
now only $4,000 bbls. os -four, while las,
year at tho same time there was about
$4,000. OF cour-e all business is very
dull, and there seems little hope Of much
being done during the season.
Buffalo Pilot.
A sale Of 200 bbl<. Akron -four was made
Mt 81 A, and 1000 bbls. Eagle Mills"
(Michigan) flour, brought 81. Twelve
hundred bbls., Ohio and Michigan, were
sold to close up an old matter al So o.
One thousand lbs. pork hams brought cts.
Commercial
ALBANY, April ll.-Rye comes in freely
and is steady at Cos CTS. per 60 lbs. Corn,
48 cts. Flour is without change at S4 go
and 75.-1D Adre,tiser.
New loRK, April l1.-Four remains
heavy; 81 69a75 covers all western o.
common brands; Rye, 10 cts. New mess
pork, 500 bbls., was sold al $l3 80; nc
other business in provision, prices steady
Whiskey is rather cheaper, drudge 23 cts
bbls. 81 cts. Ashes, 81 and 81 so.
journal Of Commerce.
BosroN, April l0.-Flour:-We Still
quote common brands Genesce al S4E, ant
duh market; some retail sales of George
town at 4 !. The market is again slack
and spectators have Withdrawn. yellow
flat corn. 5oa52; white, 475ai3; Baliimor,
oats, 2Sa30; Delaware, 3la32.- Chronicle.