Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-08-05

the miller must in all concence, have something for
his risk money invested time &c. and about fourteen
per cent is little enough, but more than he realizes
often, so the farmer puts fifty cents per bushel in his
pocket and feels whatever Dantzic wheat GENES to,
he has made losing bargain.
We think sturdy friends Of the country must feel
particularly thankful to the Press for this gentle in
situation that they must contrve to sell their wheat
at 80 cts. per bushe to compete with their brethen
on the Baltic.
There not line of the article but repete with
folly falsehood, or both. But we shall only stop
to notice the remark about "serf labor" and the as
sertion that on the "wheat lands of the Baltic but
bushels of wheat raised for every two sow
1t is the first time ever heard the assertion, and
without asking authority, frankly say, we don't
believe 1t. We have not at hand, authentic docu-
ments in relation to the husbandry of Prussia or the
neghboring powers on the Baltic, but we hare most
undoubted information of the state of Agriculture in
Belgium, still to the coast of England, and
perhaps it as well to give it here that farmers
may see what industry and what wages they must
compete with in supplying the market of Great Br-
tain.
"The farms of Flanders are small, the average
size not being more than fifty imperial acres. 1t is
impossible to say what the average rent of the farms
is but SO tar could ascertain, it may be stated at
Dos the imper acre. for the best Soils exclusive of
burdens, which generally fifth of the rent.
The farmers of Belgium handwriting class of
men-n the habit of aboring their farms, and gener-
ally ignorant of every thing else but their profession.
But in it truly they show sagacity and expert
cnce and though unalded by, and almost despising
the light of science they discover in some parts of
their system of Agriculture perfection to which sci
enee has never yet guided the people of this any
other country.
The number Of servants who live on the farm thro-
out the year are six to the farm of fifty acres, and
these paid as follows The men who perform
the wor of plowmen and laborers receive los per
month"; with their meat, which the farmers value at
Sd. per day thus making the full wages of a man
equalto 25s shillings per month or fl5(S75 year.
Thus far We quote verbatim from the report of the
Highland Agricultural Society, of Scotland; but as
our limits force us to condense matter, must
pass with brief notice, the facts found in the art
Gle from which have quoted of the hours of labor
from daylight to nearly dark-the thorough prepara
ton of the soil, by repeated blowing and narrowing
the use of the spade to deepen the furow made by
the pow-the seduous removal of every weed from
between the drills, By the hands Of females and chill
dren-the infinite with which every thing in the
shape of manure is saved, and applied the ro-
tation of crops, founded the experience of centu-
ries The remarkable fact that it may be said with
literal truth there is not cultivated acre, The proper
ties Of irhich not matters Of notoriety; and
cording to those properties the most suitable
sion and the most profitable application of manure
haze been long since resoUed on and are noc nuari-
bly, practiced-all these facts in connection with
another: that the average of land to wheat is
one third we only mention, and, in view of them,
await the answer of the Press TO the following ques
tons. Does this careful husbandry look any like the
slave labor of the south Does the price paid for
labor indicate high price for wheat? Or does the
amount of land sown with wheat Indicate so small
draw their differences, as to the actual yield I'M
the cultivation at which we have glanced we have
but one authority on the subject; this gives ii 80
bushels Berlin measure, which is from "a to 90 lbs,
according to quality, per acre.
Since the Free Press is SO fond of charging the
Wing press with keeping the people in ignorance, we
intend keeping its company awhile, TO learn tsmode
of enlightening them.
EXTRACTS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE
OF MESsRS McLANE AND BUCHANAN.
We get the Free Press Weekly, on Tuesday,con-
sequently the Message of the President the Oregon
Treaty, and the following attracts from the
pondence were in type before we saw the Coils. val
orous challenge to the Wing press to publish them;
he can see, therefore, how much truth there was in
his pompous assertion that wings would never see
these documents in their party presses.
81 have seen no case to change the
opinion that, IN any attempt to divide the Oregon
territory, the obligation felt by this government to
protect the rights of their subjects, which may have
been acquired or have grown up during the Joint Oc
cnpation, would most probably nterpose the greatest
difficulty in the way of an amicable adjustment