The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-06-20

produced IN any State, are designed ioi "o-
mestic consumption, as the cost OF trans
porting them to the dwellings of an agrlcul-
raj people is too great to admit of their i'm
porlalion. Hence, the products OF such
people afford good criterion OF the charac-
ter of their food. The stock of neat cattle
in New York was l,9ll,244 in Virginia, ii
was l,O24,l4s, the proportion of Virginia
being still the greatest. In sheep alone was
New York better off. having 5,llS,777,
whilst Virginia had ,293.772, which how
ever, is only about 100000 less than her
share. The proportion of poultry IN VIr-
ginia is double that of New York. And in
all these articles Virginia is still more The su-
perior of Ohio than of New York. GO also is
Kentucky. So that if it be said that New
York is an importer Of such provisions, and
therefore consumes more than her prodnc-
ton indicates, what is to be said of Ohio.
which exports them ALL Now in determining
The relative comfort of the two civilized COM
munilies in the same climate, the quantity
Of animal food they respectively Y c"nSnme.
is well established criterion. Yet, here is
State in the warmer climate consuming
the greater proportion. For when it is con-
sidered that the hog is killed for food at the
age of eighteen months or two years, and
neat cattle al five or SIX years, il will appear
that the excess of animal food in Virginia or
Kentucky over New York or Ohio is quite
Iarge-is quite large. indeed, even it we IN
clude the slave as well as the free populatlu'I
| Of the former States.
A reference to the quality OF brcadstuifs
and other vegetable food, leads 20 the same
conclusion. Virginia is the largest producer
Of wheat. the finest and costllest material OF
bread, OF any other State, according to her
population. Her crop Of 1910, was lO,lo0,,
ZIG bushels; that OF New York was only
l2,2S6,4lS, of Ohio 1851 .66l. All these
are wheat exporting, as well as consuming
States, but still the great mass of that article
must be consumed i'll tho respective States
of its production. In proportion to her
white population, Virginia rr"dnces twenty
five per ceut more than New York. How
is the deficiency supplied IN New York =
Not by importation. but by The substitution
Of potatoes, that cheapest article OF vcgcla'
bic food, to which the mislortunCs or lmpro'
vilence of Ireland have driven her. New
York, instead Of producing her proportion OF
wheat with Virginia, which would be thirty
five millions of bushels, instead of twelve
produces annually Thirty millions of bushels
Of potatoes, and it is remarkable that NIr,
glnla, with nearly half million OF slaves
instead Of resorling to this cheap food f"l
them, produces only about three millions o
bushels of potaturs, aud provides her lie
grocs with -s,f-ssar,c her5, anr,iatcss's
,-,--a......,-.i.... -.four and halt millions "l
bushels, and which is a much more costly
aud substantial article of food. The ,cndcn
CIV manifested by New York to prefer The
cui,s alton Of the cheapest, bu, the more pre-
carious and less nourlshng article of vcScta
bic food, is also distinctly visible IN all the
Northern states, and is fact which always
deserves 10 lie considered in any estimate I"
their present and future comfort. In Mas
sachuselts, agriculture is rapidly declining
particularly the production of the fine sorts
IF brcadstufS fact which is admitted an'
Iamen,ed by one of her leading papers-tht
Boston Atlas. The following statements
are from the Official returns OF the State.