The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-13

iSis iOo.so $50 4aa0ls,2o6 Isl aao8sS
An amount Of production said to be greater ethan
either England or France" of which, on the
age in value of the whole crop, we do not export
three per cent, while our average imports for the
last forty years have been but rihng compared with
our productions. 1t has been the one-fourth OF
one per cent. the average value of our crops for
forty years.
The wheat growing region of the United States,
wholly or partially inhabited "s,retches over twenty
degrees of longitude and ten degrees of attGde and
embraces 500 900 square miles, or 800 0OO OC0 acres
of and" A few years since the marketed supplies
Of wlreat and -four were entirely for the Atlantic
States Now the crops Of territories t"cn unknown
and unsettled fix the price. OHIO, In 1S4}, furnish
ed 49, Sc 7O5 bushels of wheat, New York l2,479,
0OO Pc rsylvana 1925, $50, Virginia 1904, 3i9,
Tennessee 6,3l7 254, Indiana 1926, sec, Michigan
5,296,27l, Illinois 1929 1872 of the l0O,3l0,OOO
raised in ls43. But few years back the three
States last mentioned received their supplies from
New York and Ohio. A. blight in New York or
Virginia will not now, in past years. cause great
fluctuations in prices. 1t is not within the range OF
probabt es that in any future year the whole crop
will be so Ear destro we'd az not to leave abundant
production for all home and foreign demand likely
to exist These are the views taken by Mr.. Will
liams, of Michigan, when he writes l845) of
"felds of 200 and 300 acres as not uncommon III
Michigan and Wisconsin, and frequently 500 and
800 acres put in wheat, under one fence, with
the product of 20 to 30 bushels per acre" with
IN,
gin prairie lands of the West can readily quad
ripple our supplies of wheat and corn for expectation
to furnish "amished Europe" and at cheaper rntes,
delivered on the seaboard of the United States than
it is possible to import VIII eat.
Having resided on farm in the interior OF
this State for several years before and after the
Erie canal was opened, also having built ana
conducted a merchant Touring mill, | can state,
from some experience and knowledge derived
from western wheat-growers, that wheat can pe
grown and harvested, to cover expense OF SEED,
labor and interest on cost Of land at 4o 10
so cents per bushe Five bushels Of good sixty
pound wheat will make u barrel Of 1856 pounds
of superine -four. The surplus OF feed, ana oran,
will paw for the cost Of barrel and grind ing. L. ID
we'll known the Pennsylvania forwarder has repean'
edly taken -four from PIttsburs and the eastern part
of Ohio on large contracts, at IS cents per barrel,
delivered in Philadelphia, equal to Is cents per
busllei. Flour from Michigan, via the Welland ca
nal and Oswego, can be delivered in New York city,
paying heavy tolls to the State at Is cents per bar
rel or l3 cents per bushel. Flour was taken the
last season from Chicago, Illinois, TO Montreal and
ide-waer for shipping to England, at IS cents per
barrel
With continuous lines Of railways 10 the Reaboard
from Ohio Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois, the same
railway car that takes back SALT manufactures, with
foreign products, can deliver -four at New York for
expectation at so cents per barrel. A substantial
freight railway can carry -four at thirty cents from
Buffalo to Albany with profit, taking into consdera-
lion the receipts from passengers, and the large
amount of merchandise and manufactures to be
transported east and west Time will test this pre-
dction, on the completion of substantial railways to
the west. All that the American farmer wants is a
steady market for his wheat, corn, pork; and beef
&c. without "a slidng-scale" Of duties, and he can
compete with the world. | mistake much his intel
gence, il he does not prefer two manufacturing
markets instead of one. Further, that he wlll be
content with "rec proca free trade" as proposed oy
Sir r. Peel, in preference to having wheat ana other
grains protected with Is cents per oushel uu.y 70
een ont CHE serf labor OF the north of Europe, and
will prefer two markets to one. r,
NEw YoaK, Feb. 90, 1886. -,
NorE.-Snce writing the foregoing, Moses II
csr,nne esq, informed me that his house had re-
c.;ved for freight to England and Ireland Is to sd
sterling on wheat and corn that the present ra'es
are Cd. to l0d., or Is to 20 cts per bushel'