Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-05-30
BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE.

Of wheat, flour, corn and corn meal, from N. 10Th
to the s'great grain markess'' Of Europe, in the
last six months, and it is as follows
Domestic For .ss
Flour, barrels, 7s,0eS ss,Sss
Corn, bushels, 1,364,666
Corn Meal, barrels, 366
Such 10 the great market the farmers have obtain.
the prospect is, that the future will be worse: We
have on our tabae the English Journals for Marcnh
which given the prices of wheat in the various
markets Of England and they vary from s2s TO SOS
per quarter extra qualities from Sss. 10 avs
fair average IS about sss., which gives % 40 TOT
the quarter equal to nine and one-third bushels OF
sixty pounds each and the prices, IN Lhgiana -
therefore, ninesy<ents bushel.
The same journals give US the price Of the mar
kets OF the continent, from which we see, that at
Hamburger, good auslities have been delivered free
on board at S5s. and the freight to London was 1s
which would give 3ss., or % "a per quarter, or
ninety four cenfs PR bushel, as the price OF heary
northern wheat, delivered in thatgreat grain mar
ket." Lots weighing sirfy pounds, which is much
higher than o@ssyer1ge, had been put on board at
$685., which wUn!d give, as the cost, delivered in
London, ninety cents per bushel. Barleywe'ghing
ffty-three pounds had been delivered on board at
las. Cd, or less than thirty cents per bushel, and
from the depressed condition of the English mar
ket, the prospect was that prices would be lower.
The potato rot seems to have disappeared, and
the season having thus far been a remarkably fine
ODeInt1OHS
for the home crop in sthe great grain markep were
deemed remarkably fine, and in the event OF the re-
suit realizing - expectations that have been FORM
ed, there IVES 1aAson to believe that the fall IN the
price Of boAh Angiisa and foreign wheat wouidyet
be considerable. It 10 clear from this, that far
mers can, this year, have foreignmarket to take
the place of the Vssf they have closed. What,
then, are their prospects, If they have, as the late
Commissioner of Patents assured US was the fact,
four hundred ma1ions Of bushels, for whicha mar
ket must be sought abroad?
Such, fortunately for them, is not the case. The
surplus for which market has not been created at
home is small, and very brief period OF
would make market in the land for all its products
IN the form of food. Onr crop last year was some
what smaller than usual, and the vast extent ofthe
domestic MARKETS shown in the fact that the price
at home is greater than in any market OF Europe;
the consequence Of which 10, that the export oil do
nestle gain and -four has ceased. Not so, howev-
er, with foreign grain and flour. The Canadian be-
ing subjected to the monopoly system Of EngianS,
has made, and can make, no market on the land for
its products. and Canadian grain and flour, a. we
have shown, pa1s through New York on their way
to England. Se1lng this great fact that the Amer
lean farmer, being STILL to great extent protected,
obtains higher price than can be obtained in the
markets of Europe, the Canadian farmer seeks Tor
reciprocity, that is to say, he desires to sell his
wheat and flour in protected market, and then to
buy his cloth and iron in England, to be imported
free Of duty-and what he seeks he is likely to OBJ
the representatives inCongress of the farm
crs and planters Of the Union seem DESTROYS to try
the experiment Of burning the candle at both ends.
They have already closed the mills and furnaces,
and the mines, and thus diminished the demand for
food, and now thcy propose to admit foreign food
free of duty, thus to increase the supply. Having
killed the farmers customers, they mean now to
kill the farmer himself.
No exertion win be spared to secure the passage
Of the bill THROUGH Congress, and when passed, 1t
will be found to Constitute bounty on the land and
labor Of Canada to be paid, good easy souls by the
farmers and planters and land orners and idborers OF
the Union. The people Of the West are sbandon-
ing their farms 70 seek California and land is di-
minished in price. The demand for labor is small,
and immigration to US from abroad, by which value
is TO be given to land, 10 diminishing. We need
only now to offer bounty on the transfer of labor
and capital of Canada, and then the
trade will be full but the ofth farmer and
land owner will - small and their purses will be
empty. is time that they should open their eyes
to the folly Of permitting their representatives thus
to trie with their interests. they do not do this,
and it is not done soon, il will be too late.