The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-02-23
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The Wheat Crop and the Market.
BY MAI. JOHN JONES.

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The crops Of wheat and corn in Della
ware, and in many parts OF the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, have doubled in, the
last 20 years; the population too, has
greatly increased within the same time.
This increase must be attributed 10 the
market crcatedby our New England Man
ufactories. ''t1'-1 " Z Al5
My land, and many other lands, have
increased in product more than four fold,
For the same. expense Of cultivation now,
or-ncarly 50, it will produce 40 bushels OF
+ corn, or 90 Of wheat, where it formerly
produced IS bushels of corn and 6 or
bushels Of wheat per acre Our lands,
which were purchased 10 or 5,ycars ago
at $40 per acre, are now worth, and yield
and pay an interest on 500 per acre, and
all this Improvement is because of the
proximity OF the loom and anvil to our
pIows.
In the Great West, where the virgin
soil is more feet in depth than ours Is in
inches, crops have fallen of, or, are ex-
cerdingly Improbable. The Commission
er of Patents had Information, and 50 gave
it in his Report for 1877, that the cost of
raising corn in the West ranges from 16
TO II cents per bushel. The prices cur
rent in St. Louis, from April to July in
the year 1913. show that corn ranged at
from II to 20 cents per bushel Indeed,
a gentleman told me few days ago, that
he once purchased 600 bushels OF wheat
at prices ranging from IS to 80 cents per
bushel, and 1000 barrels OF flour, at s. 10
per Dbl, the -four to be sweet and bear IN
sprction al the Atlantic port, if sent there
in any reasonable time. The price of corn
i'll Boston was 70 cents III 1918, when it
was but Is cents in s.. Louis. This DIFF
terence OF price was because OF the Home
market in Massac husetts, and the low
price of corn in the West is, because pro-
lection against foreign Imports, has been
repudiated in the west, where all are pro-
ducers.
1t isin vain to sag that that the high
price of corn at the east, was caused by
foreign demand, because four times as
much corn comes to the Atlantic States, as
is exported in ordinary seasons, when no
famine exists or potatoes do not rot.
The friends of free-rade insist on no Id
ing on TO the public domain. The Mary
landers, to their credit be it said, were the
first to say that the government had no
right to those lands, for the sake of reve-
nue., whilst by their free trade acts they
made farming Improbable disastrous
ly so-andg those lands valueIess, as the
preceding prices indicate. . .r.
If revenue is to be raised from public
lands, give the farmer Home Market for
their products place the looms and an
wills near the ploughs. Make corn worth
60 cents per bushel IN the west, as 1t is
in Delaware, and your land there will be
worth $50 to $50 or $lO0 per acre, If
revenue is to be raised by imposts, con-
slant employment must be given to men
to enable them to earn money to buy goods.
Neither the agricuItuiist in the West,
where it costs more to raise corn than it
will bring in the market, nor planters in
the South, where cotton is produced at
ruinous psices, are able to purchase duty
paying goods, i! A letter published in one
Of the Patent Office Reports, from a gen.
tIeman of Mississippi, stated that it cost
but little to feed and clothe a field hand
on well regulated plantation. The items
Tor Clothing and provision are set forth,
and are put down at SIG, all told.
The, friends of the South, because they
send their products abroad, insist that they
pay the taxes Let us go into an exami-
nation Of the fact. How much OF the