The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-30
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Agkrexats.


This IL very nearly the exao. amour: Of wheat
and -four (reDdered to bushels) exporte from Ohio
In 1868: A minute examination would probably In
crease II.
Now It rs look at the production and expectation
In ,saS y: crop Of wheat. - ssshss
The crop Of ls4s was in many States, especially
in Ohio and lpdians, q bad oae. Looking, however,
TO any possible iocrease, we cannot anticipate the
crop Of 1854 to be over one hundred and City mil
hons. Nos, the average consumption OF wheat, Ia
families using wheat bread, and occasionally some
crn meal and buck wheat, Is Fix bushels per indi-
yidual, including oil classes. Our population is now
about %, 600 600, Of whom twenty millions are wheat
bread consumers. They will consume 10000 900
Of $50 900 900 crop) more than thirty millions 81
busLeis for export! In fact we never have had in
ole year, more than that.
Nov let us look at toe actual expectation. The
exports Of the United States in wheat and -four,
reduced to bushels, in 1861 and 1852, were as fol-
LO1s:--
Crop. F1ywt
In 1851. .l01 900 900 bush. 1908. $3.50 bush.
In 1852 l43 900 900 bush. 1851 ,9O2 bush.
II Vii be feen a the propo ton was very nearly
the same, yz.:-l2 per cent Of the crop. 10 a crop
Of l50C00000, the same proportion viii give
is,000,0G0 bushels for expectation But a. the price
was th'D low, We must sDow for an increased ey-
10 fbr very utmost which we can export, without
chsnRpg the use Of vi eat aud how 30 that Of
But how many people viii do that? Such is the
rsse Of living in n United Sta.es THAI we under.
VIII change thsr habits, In ths respect for anything
short Of famine Prices. II Ia very ey lent, then,
that II the war in Europe continues, deranging, as
it does, the sources Of supply and the market for
breadstus, the prices for breadstuffa IN this
Try 1ill continue TO range much above the ordinary
average.
Theie Is popular error as to the production Of
wheat Ia the United 6ta,es which pervades the
oa1 of~ AIlc ~
aJies from confouDdiDg the capacity TO produce
with the actual prr due Ion. Men look round on
the fertile, grain growing soil OF the Uuited States,
and shy I'VE can iced all Europe" Very trne We
can, but we 90 not. The countries on the B Iltic
and Black seas send vastly greater SURPRISES to
market than We do, a. always will, IN ess p-icss
rule higher in the United States. The fact IL that
on the average prices paid for wheat tie American
farmer has no 81 eat temptation TO Indulge in that
crop. Notwithstanding all the boasts made Of
wheat cul ure On the prairie lands Of Wisconsin,
n chtssn and Illinois they have as yet made no sd-
vance on the wheat culture Of Obio Tne fact Is
that the grass and corn which go into cattle and
hogs are the most profitable crops. Under present
prices II IL true TIE farmer will produce ~ much
wheat ~ be can; but lie bad no such prices until
after the fall planting was made. The agriculture
Of country cannot be changed 10 one year, or two.
At dollar per bu he the farmer will be glad to
cultivate wheat; but be seldom has h - temptation,
and the great rreguls rty Of prices 10 one OF the
drawbacks on that crop.
Al
than an average crop, yet there will be no oxces-
siye surplus Of grsio in this country. II We need
heavy surpiuses, mast have another year Of cul-
tiyation 10 produce them.
THE NEW WHEAT CRor.~Paosprcrs or MILL
yG--Tbe harvest Of wheat in this vicisity Is
fat drawing to close. large proportion Of
the gram has been cut and safely secured.
Tt,sshing has CO nmenced, aud We have seen
Wheat In fair r.. order for grinding AS yet hon.
the exception OF one crop raised upon the edge
Of the corporation, aud a few scattering bags, 20
new wheat has come TO the mills of shis city.
A . decline in p ice ~as expected, nay, coui-
tia; The earliest crops would comein ut the earliest
mome,t 3, leaving those Of more tardy growth
70 sustain the fall. But in tbs we have been
pomewhat disappointed. The rieg manifest
fore do not solicit farmers 10 sell the = grain.
With the pre- seut expectations OF farmers, the
mllers ave afraid to commence operations. lest
their irst purchase may no. reach the eastern
taken pIa'e. Each man Is willing that his neigh
Dor should pay the extreme price for wheat, and
start the -four forward. while he proposes TO wait
and buy At easter rates. The market for old
wheat closed at fifteen shilliDgs-the farmers
think TIE new should o. en- at those figures. The
illers ip part admit that II may open there, but
they all want IN see the man among them who dare
open II. The whea; market lie therefore ia stat,.
QUO, and bids fair to remain until considerable of
ilc crop has been thrasbed. ard the farmers get
leisure 70 come To town. When they do 80, they
sill find the millers quite indifferent and oerha q
both parties will come to an understanding and go
10 work. We would not be surprised to see many
OF the larger mills rsmaio idle till September. Ex.
t. ems prices here low water, and q declining east.
erp ana foreign market, afford little encouragement
to ope ate. We hear from different points IA this
section Of the State that buyers are holdlog ba,k,
and refuse to make purchases az over twelve shil
lines per bushel IN some local. ties, where good
deal Of wheat is produced annually. that has been
fixed upon a. the price, and will, doubtless, be sub
pitted TO by the farmers--Rochesfcr Union.