Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-09
NATIONAL INTELLlGENCER.
AGRrcrLruRAL AND MANUFACTURING.


We have received, and run over with great inie,
rest the third number OF the Periodical entitled
8. THE Plough Me Loom, and me thrill edited
nv i S. SKINNER a. Son, published al Philadelphia,
IA 10 he had OF All the principal Booksellers and
News Agents throughout the Union. We wish
thai we had room for transferring 10 our columns
either of its leading longer articles ON Agricultural
schools on the Iron Trade of the Union, ON THE
art Of Bulchering, on Maryland Farming, and on
Wheat Culture. Deprived OF the means oE extend.
inc the publicity of these, by the pressure OF other
matters, we have made up from this valuable
monthly publication a column Of shorter articles.
which we hope will be acceptable 10 our rural read.
ers, and 10 those of our city readers who have rural
tastes
rnoM The PLOUGH, LOOM, AND THE ANVIL"
WHAT IS NEEDED TO GIVE TO THE FARMER
AND PLANTER OF THE UNITED STATES THE
MARKETS OF ENGLAND.
In our last number page IS, pointed agri-
cultural readers the mode by which they could them
selves Tie great market of England for their grain and fou
We now invite their attention 10 the following letter from
American gentleman writing from London under date Of July
9th. He says
The crop Of wheat here. it is thought will exceed
The usual averages but OF potatoes the yield promises be
very abundant and the prospect for them and for grain also
very good the continent have doubt, however thai
after February next when the duty ceases this country will
be constant customer to Us for wheat and -four though the
of it will he governed by the prices with and in
ordinary it probably will be taken any consd
cradle extent At over $3.50 IS per barrel"
Let the price Of -four be reduced Sd so per barrel and
large quantities will be taken, unless the price should fall
tc in England that i,eN not be taken al more than $3.50.
To accomplish this object nothing needed but to convert
of food into producers of food, by repeating
the present inefficient tariff and thus depvng the farmer Of
his present protection Food will then be low enough for
port to England and Their the planter win raise less food and
more cotton and cotton will be cheap England efec
tusy DO away with the East India competition What
then however, will be the condition of the planter What
will be The value Of his land What that Of his hands
Will be then be able 10 live better worse VIII he feed,
and cohe and lodge his hands better Let him
the question himself and in doing SO let him for
once forget paryf he If he will do this, he will say
himself that throughout the world the plough has prospered
in the vicinity Of the loom and the anvil and throughout the
world it has failed to prosper where the loom and the anvil
have been very distant compelling labor and
manure in Tie work Of transportation and exchange. Let
him then ask himself the remedy first satisfying himself Of
the difference between the raising of of hay and potatoes
be consumed the ground, the hand hundred
weights OF whea. or be from the lsnd the
other ..
Since wiring the above we have met with an article from
the London Times the grain crop of the United States,
rom which take the following for the information
Of the farmers OF the Union
"Supposing the above tables approach any thing like
correctness, conclusion would apparent. consd
cradle surplus Of wheat is produced akng the American crop
on the basis OF lsi the required and prices
must, consequently decline in all open markets until they
reach point which will lead increase Of consumption
sufficient take off such surplus, until diminished pro-
ducon shall in consequence of their passing below
remuneratlng rate"
In the article given list Of the open markets Of
the word-those which export fool-and they Russia,
Egypt and Syria Eastern Germany Denmark and Sicily
all Of them the poorest countries Of Europe those which
waste most labor and in the work Of transportation
and exchange and have least either apply that of pro-
ucton Such are With which the United States
are required to compete and belief is confidently expressed
BY the in the Times that they will do That they
may go all that necessary is that they should shut up
their furnaces and factories and drive the prosperous
ers the West there to become poor producers and they
may them in the words of the Times, "boIdy into
composition with those of any other nation in the great corn
market Of the world even with the Russian boor and the
Egyptian felah. When abounded in Egypt and
Sicily, the producers rich They themselves consumed
largely and had much spare. The have dsap
peared and the producers have become poor They
sumo little themselves, and they have little spare.