The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-10-04
Good Crops.

"hee 'eh' cIcuihTS tHTouSHouC the
country in order to obtain from rclin.
bic sources statements of the condition
Of the crops in the different States of
the Union. The result has been that
the prospect Of u plentiful year is far
more favorable than has been generally
supposed. Indeed, we have long since
ceased to place much confidence in the
reports which are circulated almost
every year of a failure in the crops
Tho interest Of the producer is calcu.
lated to induce him to misreprescnt
the facts in order that tie price Of his
produce may be thereby proportions
ately increased. And even if there be
MI honest intention to represent tho
truth fairly, there is u tendency on the
part ofevcry agriculturist to depIcciutc
his crops whenever he has been par
TALLY disappointed.
The Herald announces that the
wheat crop in Upper Canada has been
unprecedented, and that the supplies
for expectation to the United States
will be unusually large. From many
sources too, we learn that the grain
crop in England has been immense
Large trncts of country have yielded
an average of thirty bush. Is to the
acre, and in some cases the enormous
yield OF sixty bushels has been real
izcd."
The above, which we copy from the
Curoliniun, mus, be gratifying to our
country, al large, and we do not mean,
by what, we arc about to say, to de-
tcct from the merit of the article, yet
We would not have our people lullcd
into fancied ease and security or
our favored community cozcncd out
of their advantages by statements
which though true in the main, yet do
not apply strictly and directly to US
The large crops made in England and
at the North (if truc) must lesson the
demand for grain in those countries
which have hitherto done larger en-
porting business and must too to some
extent effect the price of food all over
our country; but it cannot effect US
much. The crops throughout Ten.
neSsee and hentueky and the greater
portion Of Georgia and North Carolina
our ncighbors and the great grain
markets Of our Southern country
have almost been total .tuilure. We
speak knowingly, for We have recently
passed through these States with the
exception of kentucky, and our inqui.
rics concerning the crops in that State
were particular and made to those who
had the best opportunities of knowimg,
and the unanimous testimony was
that there had not been more than
half crop made. In fact so little corn
has been made throughout Tennessee
and in portions of Kentucky that in
some places. it could not he had nj my
price. And rs all evidence too of its
scarcity we noticed that the inaioTity Of
the farmers were NO: fatiiiilg their
hogs-,hc great staple Of these coun-
trics-for market; but on the contrary
q general willingness was manifest to
dispose of their stock at from . to . 9
cents per pound. These evidences are
not to be mistaken. Whatever then
may be the truth of these newspaper
reports as to the large crops in Eng
land and At tie North it can but be
wise in us to hold on to our grain and
pork until we are better satisfied that
they arc not to reach higher price
than for years past. Sumter District
has to = great extent been blessed
with bountiful grain crop and now
that An opportunity OF reaping rich
reward is held out ahead it would be
folly in our people to rush into the
market and destroy their chances when
SO many evidences of coming scarcity
are all around them.
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MIR. GaHRac WELLS Hnvcm-
tlOnn.
We zee i:nm tho Camden journal, that
the Invention OF Mr.. J. n. GAMEwgLL,
winch was noticed some weeks since, in
the Banner, IS likely to prove successful
We congratulate Mr. GAMEwEL1. upon his
discovery. The journal speaking Of
It snys:
"Our worthy postmaster and telegraph
operator at tins place, John n. Gamcwcll,
esq, has recently returned from New