Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-09-23
Production Of Wheat.

are presented some facts worthy Of parli-
cular consideration at this time Of an'iei.
pated scarcity. We shall, iherefore, make
quotations al length:
There are those who win tell you the
corn is nearly all destroyed; aud those
who say it is nearly as good as ever, and
high prices are the result OF speculation.
Neither Of these views are correct, and
truth, as usual, lies in the middle. There
is serious and heavy loss in the corn
crop, and greater one in potatoes. This
loss will be felt chiefly in fatlening ami
mails for market. Whether il will ad-
vance the price Of animal food is an in
determinate problem; for, while TIE
corn will be very dear, the animal to be
falted will be very cheap.
The most interesting problem, howev-
er, is the state of the wheat market. A
few months since your Rochester millers
threatened not to buy wheat till il got
lower. The farmers said they raised an
immense crop, and they must bring il in.
They would wait. Well, the market
wheels, instead of going back, have gone
forward with immense rapidly. For
this there must be a cduse;-what is it !
The truth lies in this simple fact,-,hat
the United States having no permanent
market for breadstuffs abroad, raise bu,
very small surplus IN the best of years.
When, therefore, there is European de-.
mand, or a shor. crop, we Immediately
find ourselves short, and prices high, only
because we have not prepared for that
state Of 'hings' Both causes operate this
year, and we have arrived at a point in
which il is the home market which deter
mines. The home price is determined
by this fact-that each day in the Yves
there is an inquiry for more -four than
there is on hand.
The writer proceeds 10 give tabular
statement of the population, production
and consumption Of wheat in each State,
together with the deficiency or surplus
made up from the census basis of 1850,
from which he deduces the following cur.
ious facts;
1, That nineteen States do not raise
whea: enough for their own consumption.
2. Tha, eight States only raise sub
s'an,ial surplus: the other four raising
only nominal surplus. Eight principa
manufacturing States, ten planting States
and Ole mining State, do not raise thei
own bread. California will probabl,
raise its own wheat, and New York i
nearly balanced.
3 The fifteen Slave States do not quit,
raise their own bread, although Virgini
and Maryland export largely.
4. The Exporting Ports Qor bread
stufIs) are Philadelphia, Baltimore, Rich
mond, Cleveland, Sandusky, Toledo, De
r ,rois, Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, an
Cincinnati, i,-tegether usually exportn!
forty millions of bushels, or equivalen n
; -four. The Importing ports are New Or
leans, Mobile, Charleston, Norfolk, Ne,
/ York, New Haven, Providence, Bostor
= Portsmouth, and Portland. Into Bosto
alcne is imported from the West, on
million of bushels of flour.
: 5. Ohio raises as much wheat Tin III
y average) as all the other Northwestern
States, and her surplusi is nearly the who1
surplus of the country. We have til
wheat crop of Ohio pretty exactly ft
!. four years, and it was as follows:
Crop of 1850, (the Census crop) 100000
e Crop of 1850, ,(state Assessors crop 35,Oo0,o(
h Crop of 1851, GO g 26,OOO,OC
G Crop Of 1858, "a, ,OO0, ,OC
u Aggregate 100000
g Average crop 27,500,0'
have stated the returns in round nur
= bers, but they are very nearly exact
k You will observe there is room for va
il differences. There were twenty million
difference in Ohio alone, between Il
crops of ls49 and 1850; and, | have
> doubt, the returns were true. In 1874
~ more than half the fields in the State we
- DESTROYED by rust. In 1850, there W
o. an enormous crop, such as was nev
e le raised before. Such crops reduce Il
~ price to low point, and it is from tn
y low point we raise to the present hi,
= prices. These alterations of the ma
rs kets i. is quite fashionable to charge
vi speculation; but that is sheer nonsens
In the present state Of commerce and l.
comotion, no comt ination of speculat te
he though they were Rothchlds-can CO..
y, mand the -four market. As often as tn
is is attempt it they break down. 1, wou
,e 're be easier to go into Wall street and &C
an ner oil the e.'bears, bulls, asses and unicor
lat there, than to control the grain marke
in The world consumes each year abe
,la m eight thousand millions Of bushels of grt
M M of some kind, for human support, and t
Of costs is about four thousand millions
dollars,--a sun, which, imagine, c,
ill not easily be handled, even by conspi
mr. cy of universal Bankeldom.
, The fact is, il is NATuRE-trom VIII,
no teeming bosom all things edible come
try that causes these alterations and
,ns begins her work long before she is 8
o, pected. And NATURE, what is she?-
~ machinery of GoD!
aa- In the deep caverns of the North,
prepares the hoar-frosts which freeze
roots, and from the hot sun sends do
49,, the beams W hich rust the stalks of VIII
-, m dry up the corn, and wilt the flower.
Tile Let us be content for in His hands
ion things are safe; and whether in cold
,f heat.--in Summer drouths or WI