Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-10-07
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
New YORK, Sept. 2l, 1916.

New YORK, Sept. II, lS4o.
To tie editor ofthe Union:
During the week ending September Sd.
there arrived at Liverpool Eng and) the
following produce from the United States,
viz: 26,7.9 barrels of -four; 81, 1919 BUSH
OILS of wheat; II 1907 bushels of corn; 2, 022
boxes cheese; l,l4l barrels'of lard; besides
butter, haps, pork, and clocks in any guam
tity. All this in the space Of seven days.
Is England annexed" to the United States
or not!
During the last two weeks Indian corn
has advanced in price in this market from
so cents per bushel to 50 cents ADVANCE
The entire crop in the United States of corn
is estimated at 800 millions bushels, and
the increased value on this article alone to
our farming interests Is, at the aboV e adj
vance of 90 per cent, $50 millions Of dol
lars. In other words, what was worth pre-
vious 10 the repeal of the corn laws Of
Great Britain (Which our proIec tionsts said
would not benefit us) but $50 millions of
dollars, is now worth 400 millions!
In the same time wheat flour has advan
ced one dollar per barrel. The whole
quantity of flour in the United States is
estimated at twenty-one millions of barrels
This gives an increased value upon the ar
,icle of -four OF twenty one millions Of dol
lars.
Here, then, upon two articles Of agricul
ture has the wealth OK the country been in
creased within The space OF a few days of
one hundred and seventy millions. or the
simple incre ase of price is more than the
whole value Of cotton and wool fabrics
manufactured in the country during the
last four years. (Hele is ''ruin" and 'pan
ic' for you'll And yet you will hear pro.
tectlonists talk of a ''home market" A
home market is as good as any other mar
ket so far as it goes; but how much, void
ask, do our manufacturing establishments
increase the consumption of the country?
a single county in Ohio, and another in
Tennessee, would furnish all the manufac
turers in the Union with all the wheat and
corn they could use for a year. Restrict
US to ''bome Market" as the wings pro-
pose, what would become Of our immense
surplus? Shame that these manufacturers
can think Of nothing but their own pockets
A famous Apple Tree.-Mr. Moses P
Irwin, who res des in Washington town
ship in this county, has now growing upon
his farm an apple tree, the dimensions of
which are somewhat surpris ng. 1t is a.
bout forty years old, and was planted by
the father of Mr.. Irwin. At the distance
of fifteen inches from the ground the tres
is eight feet in circumference; six feet
from the ground it measures seven feet
The top OF the tree, measuring from north
10 south, extends fifty feet four inches;
from east 10 west it measures fifty nine feet
ten inches.
| Mr.. Irwin says that there has been good
| deal Of speculation as TO the quantity of
fruit the tree might bear. 1t has never yet
been luIl-but three hundred bushels is the
estimate of It's bearing capacity. The ap-
Piles borne by the tree, although natural
fruit, make remarkably fine cider Day.
| ton Jour.
! FUR COMPANY RoBBED.-The Indepen-
dence Exposition, of the 18Th, says that the
company of Messrs Leonard. of that coun-
! ", dHu DuaW, OF 81. Louis, are near al hand
after long and tedious trip. Mr.. Shaw
returned from the plains early last spring,
/ but was unable 10 bring his buffalo robes
with him on account of the lownes OF the
water in the Big Platte river. He was
obliged TO send Wagons TO transport them
across by land. These Wagons were pu,
in charge of eight men on their return, and
were getting on pretty well until the Paw
nee Indians, seeing their weakness, stole
one hundred aid forty packs of robes from
| them. The company conirved 10 retain
one hundred and twenty five or thirty packs
which were expected TO reach Indepen-
dence in few days.
! SCARCITY OF BUTTER The Harris
burgh papers complain that butter is sell
ing at 20 cents per pound. In Phiadel-
pha the prices ranged by retail at from 81
10 81 cents. Here IN our own CITY il is
selling from 1901 cents, and ready sale
al hat. The farmers in accounting for the
high prices say that the cows have been SO
troubled with flies that they have no, beer
able to eat, and hence have given Blu, "a
small quantity OF milk.-[Buff Gaz. &,
Express.