The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-07

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By THE s that the quantity OF WOOL
brought into the country ofate years amounts almost
periods as from 1871 and 1915 the qusntity nearly
one half The largest proportion OF this imported Wool
States ON the Rio de la Plata and of and cheap
variety costing from six to eight cens per pounu IL
viii be always cheaper TO bring rms xna o. ~oC rom re-
to produce il at home but there Is country in the
worldin which sheep may by judicous treatment, be
made source greater wealth and comfort inhabi
taDts than the United states.
The importaton OF wool in ls4e and 1850 exhibit
Variable increase over the preceding foImer year.
amounting in quantity to 81 54S COS pounds and the
value Of IS 100000,
WHEAT
Wheat where the soil and the climate adapted to
Its growth and the requisite progress has been made in
its culture dec iedy preferred other grains and
next to maize is the most important crop in the United
States only account Of its general for bread
but for its safety and convenience expoitaon It is
not known to what country it is indigenous any
than other cultivated cereals all of which doubt
have been essentially improved By man By wheat
s sidered to have been eoeyal with the creation
known that upwards OF thousand years before
era it was cultivated and superior variety had been
attained 1t has steadily followed the progress of civi
saion from the earliest times in all countries where
would grow.
colonies dates back TO the earliest period OF their settle
ment by Europeans twas first with other grains,
ON the Misabetb slande in Massachusetts, by Gosnod,
1t the time he explored that coast in 1902 In 1911
wheat, veil other grains soSn in Virginia and
by the 1913 there we're cultivated many hupdred
acres in that colony Although premiums offered
announcement Of its growth in 1851 it not
much cultivated for more than century after in
sequence Of the i'll directed attention to the culture Of
tobacco.
by the Western Company, in Ills, where from The
careless mode of cuyspg it by the early settlers and
the sudden alterations Of temperature it would only
yield from FIVE to eghtfod running to and blade
without filling the ear In 174o however, the culture
had far extended that six hundred barrels OF flour
received at New Orleans from the Wabash; and by
the year 1850 the French of Illinois raised three times
much wheat they consumed and large quantities of
grain and -four were sent 10 the same place.
Prior to the revolution the primitvs soils of New
York New jersey, ard of New England. appear not
have ewarded the cultivation of this grain much if
any the wants of the inhabitants Considerable
quantities raised the hudson and in parts
Of New Jersey and Pennsylvania which exported to
the West Indies ard New England and Great Britain
France Portugal and SPAIN 10 of scarcity previous
to 1923.
In 1T76 there entaed upon this country an endur-
ing calamity in consequence If the Introduction of the
Hessian wheat fly, which supposed to have been
brought from Germany in some straw employed in the de-
barkson of Howes troops the end Of Long Island
From that point the insect gradually spread
rections at the rate of twenty thirty miles year
the wheat OF the entire regions Of the Aghans
now more less infested with the lsvral well in
large portions of the States bordering the Ohio Mis-
spp and on this lakes and great have been the
ravages Of there insects that the cultivation Of this
grain has In many places been abandoned
The geographical range OF the wheat region In the
Eastern Continent and Australia lies principally between
the Soth and Seth parallels of north latitude and be-
tween the 3oth and A tn degrees south being chiefly
confined to France spain Portugal Italy Sicily Greece
Turkey Russia penmsrk Norwsy, Sweden Poland
Prussia Netherlands Belgium Great Britain Ireland.
Northern and Sou bern Africa Tartary, India Chins
Australia, Van Deman's Land, and Japan Along the 2
Atlantic portions Of the Western Continent it embraces
the tract lying between the 30b and 50th parallels and
in the country westward of the Rocky Mountains
two degrees further north Along the west coast Of
South America well situations within the Torrid
Zone sufficiently elevated above the level of the and
properly irrigated by natural artificial means album
dant crops are oiCeD produced
The principal districts of the United States in which
this important grain Is produced in the greatest
embrace the states Of New York New Jersey,
Pennsylvania Delsware Maryland, Virginia, Ohio,
cons na Ths sb Yaris,;ss cY,t'ratsS Is
the Northern and Easter States white tea
Liberan bald Black and the Italian sprng wheat.
In the middle ana Western States the Mediterranean,
the Virginia white May the blue stem the Indiana the
Kentucky white bearded the old red chaG and the raa
upwards acre, weighing per bu'hel from fifty eight
to sixty seven pounds
appears that the whole crop OF the United States
there gain doIiDg the ten years Of Is GAS 37s
bushels The crop Of New England decreased from
20,4 600 TO 1875 900 bushels exhibiting decline OF
$50 bushels and indicating the attention Of farmers
has been much Withdrawn from the lure of whsst
Grouping the States from the Hudson to the Potomac
including the District of Columbia it that they
produced in 1s4e 35 0S 900 bushels against % e36 90
In 1889 Virginia there increase of 1884 900
bushels These states embrace the Oldest wheat growing
region OF the country and that 10 Shcn the soil and
climate TO be adapted to promote the permane
ture OF the grain The OF production in the
years has been 272 coo bushels equal to 1876 cent
The area Of TILED land in these States is SO 900 600
acres only thirty cent OF the Shoe amount returned
while the proportion of wheat Produced forty six
cont In North Carolina there mas been an increase of
ITO bushes but in the southern States generally
there considerable decTee-e Indiana Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin, contributed to the general eg
Qegate under be Sixth only 500 Geo bushels;
under they ,hosn 70 bare produced upwards
OF a5C0o 600 buhes az amount equal TO the whole in
crease in the Unit ed states for the period
When see the growth Of wnea keeping up With the
progress of population in the Oldest states q the Union
need have DO apprehension u decline in the cult
walton Of this important crop
The amount ofour exported from New Jersey in 1851.
YVES 424 barrels From Philadelphia, In 1852 12j $50
barrels besides $500 bu heels Of what in 1907 leSs6
barrels besides s67 500 bushels Of wheat Ia I'll 2527
barrela From Savannah in l77i. zoo pounds From
Virginia, for annually preceding the revou-
ton SEQ 900 bushels Of wheat The total exports Of -four
from the United states, in 1871 6l9 6Si batres
besides 10lS3S9 bushels Of whet; in 1910 653 o52 bar
res besides 20 $50 bushels OF wheat ia $50 79S AL bar
rels besides 325 pa bushels Of wheat IN lS9o2l l056
1lp barrels beside % S2l bushels OF wheat; in lsS03t
1880 529 barrels besides 40s $40 bushels Of wheat in
1S4o-41 l55Sl1 barrels. besides SOS 5s5 bushels OF
wheat; In 1876 22s9 40 barrels besdes lel3ie
butheis Of wheat in 1s4647 1882 496 barrels besides
43qe e51 bushels OF wheat IN 1867 bl 22O2 1886 barrels
besides / O23 T25 bushels Of wheat
According to the Of S4o the wheat crop Of the
United States amounted % sis23 272 bushels in 1892
according to the Of 1850 loo SOB S99 bushels al
though In of the largest wheat gro wing States the
crops Of 1s49 fell far below the average
In the State Of Ohio especially there great dehci
ency AND was apparent the OF the wheat
crop for the ensuing yearmade in pursuance OF act
Of The legislature Of thar state From the almost uni
versal short crop by the msrshss 10 that
State In 1s49 which fell below that OF 1872 two millions
Of bu hes and the cfrtaned crop OF 1880 We are fully
satisfied that the vhea. crop OF Ohio would ap
pear thirty per greater than shown by the
turns The which operated to Diminish the
wheat crtp Ohio pst without their effects upon
that Of other bordering the upper portion Of
the valley Of the MssisipOi
In the London exhibition. very little wheat exhi
bed equal 10 that om the United States especially that
from Gennessee county in the State OF New Yorka SOFT
white variety The exhibitor II which prize medal
awarded by the Roysl Commissioner ADD recsntly
transmitted TO Mr. Bell by the President of the United
States the chairman Of the Executive committee 10 the
United States The red Mediterranean wheat exhibited
nom The United states attracted much attention. The
wheat from nth probably perior to any
exhibited while much from country fell but Lit
tie behind and wa uDquestionaty next in quality.
This grain Is supposed to be native OF the Caspian
CsucAtAn and has been clvaet In the north OF
Europe and Asia from time imnsmorsl where II const
tutes important article q human subsistence being
generally mixed with barley wheat It's inttoi1cion