The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-24

y census Of 1860. loo, 503, 500
ncy ls,OO7 lOl
) OF ls6S-4................ rs 100000
t................... 1900, 1Ol
census crop was that Of lSl9, IL viii b Ohio
I much over half o cros, al there was some
rcy IN ciGsr Slater; but after ailow wing for
~ sup Oribg q so much Increased breadth of
WI, II n mGst evident that Nc cannot have
As, larser proportion Of whsas than in
In oil Iobatili y, we have less. Il IL not
wheat crop, therefore, that any relief can be
Tor the deficiency in COIN. 4 ve large part
potato crop tuils also.
he other side OF the account, however, We
large crp OF oats, and Large crop OF nay.
re OILY can any substitute be found for
corn. But. shen we consider thai oats and
. -uslly all consumed by domestic animals,
be surplus Of these articles Will not 20 graf
y supply deficiencies In others.
6y 10 means wish 10 excite speculation by
fiat'ng the amount VI gra,n III the country,
certainly can be Of no bct eff, especially to
Is, to leave erfone us state nents of full crops
~ coEtradicts The truth, IL we can or i've
houie slvays be known. We observe state
in the Nc~ York papers to this effast: TDat
heat Gro of the West Is only ..icient in
parts Of Ooio, but Llnois aud Missouri will
|fe immense amounts, that the English cop
goo1, al the Russian crop will be exported
h the Danube, &c.
II VIII, make these statements forget that Ohio
les more surplus wheat than all the other
I'm States, taas t,e snoply Of Russian wheat
be great In state OF war, especially when
ar 10 about to be csrrie on in the wheat conn
% that finally, wleas At Live pc i, after fail.
|nvilY, il now fifty per cent higher han II vas
\ N ha aUO TN f.o ro AZ, 81 n !. l,,k
BILE " the i0ea that grain is to be abundant in
IRE INT pear.
pis review We ain only to give the simple, un.
eratrd stats ment Of the case a. it ia. Iateli-
erchaDts, we tuet, examine for themselves,
b oot he misled--if we were williog 90 mis-
rem-hy one'siced statements. They koOw,
|d0, that without spe ial act Of Providence
arn0t Ia this da, OF civilization be a famine,
deficiency IN any one country. Steam has
be world almost one great cCuatry, ia witch
pr at once from ever, part, and can mmedi-
upply the DIFF iency Of one by the Surplus Of
|r. In 1854, this ..ouDtry has, we trus., grain
ID TO live upon, but certainly has nos ona Of
large CT pr with whore exc az We have been
o supply many parts Of the wosld.
The Drought and the Cror~.
[From the Buffalo Courier, Aug 22l
be time the wheat crop OF the present year
/ d, tie evidences were { at most abunG ant
to the farmer, OF other leadi1g crops, would
ustd, NO ltss tan of whest. This pro ,pect,
lows Yer, 10 greatly changed. Though Of thu
lluded to al promised well for such result,
|oe prouacted drought, and whtch still con-
has greatly changed t,e prospect now.
shis, ike the usual evils Of TIE fy in wheas,
erely local, and narroy Wy oon6ned, Of course
Id give cause for NO u0tasiness; but it is not
n the contrary, Is extends from Name on the
10 the Mississippi river on the West and it il
eeread as justly 70 portend real disaster.
potatoes, and grass, aie sll involved in the
ctiop it briDgs; and this is tho condition Of
II for hundreds Of miles In extent. In some 10.
people are now, even in August, Obliged to
Il their attic as in winter, 30 psrched ID all
sti0D; and the pr0cur -ment OF water, for
man or beast, Is often work OF great diff.
\. This state If things has destroyed the corn
|syer vice Japges of our MOST prO1u tive corn
be, whei q tina. plant, after partly filing its
/ Las actually dried up. Potatoes are little
/. Like tbs corn, they were doing fiuely. m
|ir growth was stopped by ,hs drought. Taey
|e numerous enough, bas cannot attain their
DE- must amount to very eks'a.
" this, in food point Of vssv no less than in
nee to the unprecedented Of The farmers, is
kticn Of serious import. The wheat crop, it is
10 q good ard full one; but II cannot do its
flee and at the same time supply the places
ese Of earn and pctaioes also.
In this head, the annals of the past Instruct us.
1929 10 1859, we had, Ia this country, ten
fsve cold seasons We cay coli, for the dill
t7en, was not drought, as it now Is. Ia no
\ lhose RemoI able ten years was there An ave-
|erop Of corn obtsinei throughout the corn
Ing regions Of tse Uoited States. Wheas WAS
10 seriously affected. On the contrary, that
yielded fairly, and often heavily, througl I
ten years. AS We sent bus little to Europe
Eis was for while believe that we Ell u!d not
seriously from the deficis Of corn; but that
On soon vanished. We did suffer seriously
i truth, co.n was, oil things considered, the
FDpertsnt crop OF the two.
Y piofusion OF wheat could no., and did not
hs. The cosTssr grains, and corn particularly,
wanting, wheat wac, Of necessity, substituted.
cases where It could be. This drew OF that
from its more legitimate uses even from the
and each successive year saw this 0raia in
4, and its evil multiply. At the commence
of the period in question Of course tLere WAS
Id deal OF old grain, Of oil kinds in tho country.
\ y failurt Of new crops began, of course this
was tesoited to; and 1t wss gradually coz
h, NJ der the pressure arising from these
les. The result wss, as but TOO maay can well
noer, that ere the ten years had run their
Ie, the old storts OF grain wee all consumed,
tie current crops Of wheat had been 50
b upon, tor al purposes, "a to fully exhau d
K and fnaliy, all h ime resources being expend.
X actually rad 10 resort TO the importation Of
|, firm Eurore, TO feed in part this great agri.
bal republic
anomalous fact was, at the time attributed bv
politicians 10 neglect OF tilisge, than which
Ing cou.d have bel more erroneous, no sever
|tiy intended. The truth was, there was no
bfillage. The wheat and the corn were both
Il 10 the ground, in their fnli proportion to for.
ears. adding the fair per cent for increase oil
Iaiion. But the con failed thfuag1 tae cold 10
Re, and the whest could not alone supply the
I'd for both kiods Of grain.
ytsr lS40 was the first one Of returning pros.
h. The seasons then resumed their wonted
,lness, by returning to their former degree OF
III, enc t5at year ne tad an average crop for
Est time In ten years Of all the grams. This
Jed oy otber seasops not less prolific, promptly
Er end to the strange Anomaly Of our grain i'm
Itons, which have not sincs been renewed.
BIT ten years Of famine IL refs rred to, here only
bstrate the importance of the corn crop in the
ste economy Of this nasion. We have not now
II beginning Of the ten years referred to, q
supply OF OLD grain In the country upon which