Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-10-29


faction &C tis mind. be states 10 be:
II. That the potato disease is not 50
bad as public feeling and the public press
have represented it; that il has been sic.
lnally checked in its ravages, and has pro.
baby, in great measure. spent lis force
fer this season; that the abundance Of food
!, for cattle, viii liberate an unusual piopor.
ton of a diminished annual supply Of DO.
tatoes for human food; consequently, that
the store Of potatoes may, with ECONOMY
in the use, enforced BIZ higher price, be
sufficient 10 serve the people for food in
reduced rations for three fourths Of the
time that potatoes annually serve for in
ordinary times and seasons--ihe writer has
this week seen and tasted good potatoes
which were dug up in Octaber, 1915.
%. That the wheat crop of England,
approaches nearly 10 an average crop
being such as 10 prove more deficient in
measurement than in its ultimate results
in the shape Of flour and bread. That, al
though ho. parehing weather has in some
quarters rendered the grain small and fin.
~ for the want Of gradual ripening. espe.
cially 10 the northern countries. il is general
1 ly Of excellent quality for manufacture
through all processes and their products,
by giving stronger flour and more bread;
il has smaller proportion Of refuse than
is usually found in average wheat crops;
the weight per bushel exceeds the weigh,
Of most good well secured crops; and,
therefore, it is moi 10 te estimated by nes-
surement alone, which this year is no,
quite so perfecta criterion as in most sea-
sons"
| Whsat, Flour. Breadstu6s, &c.--The
following article, which we copy from the
London Shipping Gazette of October 2,
will be read with interest by our farmers
as we'll as dealers in breadstufs generally:
Though Wheat has risen in value l5s
per quarter since the end Of Jolly, and
prices of other descriptions of grain in
nearly the same proportion, an opinion is
prevalent that quotations will be much
higher during tho approaching winter
The grounds for this belief are, the ascer.
tanned deficiency in the produce of all
spring corn, and the extensive failure Of
the potato crop.
That Great Britain will require a very
large importation Of grain before the mex.
harvest cannot be questioned; and as the
stocks of old grain are comparatively in
significant all over Europe, whilst the har.
vest of IS46 has turned out more ndif-
ftren'ly on the Continent than in Eng
land it may be difficult 10 secure the requi-
site quantity. To succeed in doing so, twill
certainly be necessary TO pay high prices,
as their own necessities Will render our
continental neighbors more than usually
ienscrous in parting with their produce.
Prices have already got up considerably at
all the leading points in the Baltic and by
the Britannia steamship we learn tina, the
expectation Of failure of the potato crop
in Europe had caused rise in the value
of -four Of thres-fourths Of a dollar per bar
rel at the principal market Of the United
States.
We are. hagever, glad 10 learn from
thence that the yield Of both wheat and
Indian corn was abundant over the greater
part Of North America. The latter article,
il is true, had not then been secured, bntit
was in so advanced a state as to be con-
sidered out Of danger. Great as are the
resources Of the United States il would be
unwise TO calculate on nything like sup
ply from thence al all adequate 10 our
wants; and the idea that the price ofwheat
viii continue 10 tend upward does not,
therefore. appear 70 US at all unreasonable.
! Tho deliveries from our own farmers,
which have recently been on very lser-
al scale, are now beginning 70 fall OFT; and,
for some time 10 come-until The sowing
Of the autumn crops shall have been COM
pls,ed--the sspplies Of housegfswn wheat
are likely 10 be moderate even a tempo
rary reac,ioa in prices seems, therefore,
Improbable.
Such, at least, appears TO be the pre-.
sent impression, and al al the principal
provincial markets held during the week,
merchants and millers have shown SO
much anxiety 10 increase their stocks as
to give sellers the opportunity Of realizing
an advance Of from IS to As per quarter on
previous rates. The arrivals Of wheat,
coast. wise into London, have been quits
moderate since our last, nor has the guam
tity exhibited at Mar-lane by land carriage
samples been by any means lsrge. On
Monday the show from Kent Essex and
Suffolk, was less than on that day week,
and the stands were cleared without diff
Guilty at rates IS per quarter above those
current in the commencement Of the pre-.
ceding week. Since then factors have in.
sisted on further rise of Is which has in
some measure checked the demands; STILL
fair extent Of business was done this
morning al that advance.
Foreign free Whea: has met with atten.
tion, and has risen in value quito as much
as English. In bonded hardly any thing
had taken place, not so much from the
wait Of demand az from the scarcity Of
good qualities. and the extravagant terms
at which the fner kinds have been held.
The duty fell to about IS per quarter yes
terday, and will recede gradually 10 the
minimum point. On Monday the town
miller. rose to the top price Of -four to sos
per sack, at which improvement the sale
has since been rather free. For the best
fresh brands of United States flour "a 35s
per barrel has been paid, aad secondary
sorts have brouoht correspondinu terms.