Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-09
THE CORN CROPS.

nesota Wisconsin, the northern part of Illinois, and much
than one-haf Of Iowa that the crops of corn pota
toes &C. promised better returns for the labor of
the farmer So il will be- have before said in the
counties fronting Iowa the Missouri. Added to all
this there is much of last years growth yet the
barn. We gave instance of this yesterday in specu
atioas made at Lexington; the Peru () Gazette the
other day spoke of large amount still hand in that
county; and there towns the upper Mississippi
river where large amounts of old may be purchased
People should not be deceived by crsakers There is
abundant supply Of grain for year to come and in
ation of prices predicted short crop every where
likely to operate to the prejudice of spectators"
The New York Journal of Commerce publishes two let
tiers from respectable relative the prospects
Indian and pork in the West The writers are un
derstood to be interested in opposite directions One may
be called bull In Wall street parlance the other bear
CHICAGO, sEprRMpEn 2, 1854
DEAR SIR: find the corn crop very good in North
Indiana, fair in Ohio and large in Northern Illinois
and am told much the largest crop grown in Wis
consn and Iowa. The receipts corn here over
100000 bushels week, and would, am told be twice
that quantity if the rivers were not so low. Mr..
Of this city, informs me that there are not 100000
bushels in warehouses on the Illinois river. Mr. -
whom met at the St. Nicholas in your CITY, has so 900
in store and 200 900 the way here from
Illinois river which may account for his ideas Of short
CROP Inere are mionS anu mlons OF year before last
in this country yet and end to last years crop
There is old corn enough to aten all the hogs in the
country The hogs do not require much usual
this season, they two three weeks in adj
Of other seasons dry being favorable
fatenng hogs One hundred and ninety eight hogs
in here last week, weighing 800 lbs each men
ton this to show you there large hogs now.
took pains to find out about the corn at fremont
m and gentleman who is from there says it will ave-
thirty bushels TO the acre. and that corn is now
worth thrtytwo cents at Pekin and about twenty
cents at fremont and that distance from the river So
you will see was right in pronouncing that newspaper
story about and dollar per bushel offered for
corn In fremont humbug and the other stories have
about as much truth. Yours, Sc.
LOUISVILLE, (KY.) SEPT. A. 1854
The prospect here for the ensuing crop of hogs in nv
opinion looks gloomy than before the late rains
Notwithstanding the newspaper reports the contrary
fully assured that in the feeding counties with
in one hundred miles of Louisville there will not be half
the last years crop in weight; in fact do believe
it will be half in number, and the weight will be from
thirty to fifty per cent. short of last This is
idle panic opinion, but based facts The only
tions of country that will get good hogs FROM that
our packers turning their attention to- are the
northern part Of Indiana and Illinois They have pur-
chased large quantities Of those sections and will
drive the hogs there and feed them This will shorten
the crop at Terre Haute Lafayette and other points
the Wabash We will probably get twenty-five to
forty thousand hogs from this section of country where
have before got any hogs and with this
sion to our packing we do not now expect to kill over
from two hundred and fifty to three hundred thousand
hogs Allowing them to be thirty per cent short in
weight of last season, it will not make equal $50 600
hogs Of equal weight to last years hogs and in this
will get 600 hogs from section of country where we
got any before give the foregoing my honest
opinion of the ensuing crop.