The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-02-25
agricultural.
Correspondence of The Cecil Wing.
HOW TO HAVE A MARKET.

prices Of bradStuits runshigh at present; so
they did in,lS47, but by 1850 we had so in
creased our cropsthat the price of wheat went
down to 10 cents a bushel or to.onc third the
price of 1917.
Wheat is now high; it lately ranged in New
York at from - to 50 Go per blshel. :These
high prices will, doubtless, stimulate farmers
to seed more land, and by 1855 we may OK
poet wheat to be down to as low a figure as in
1850, which was much below the cost,cf pro.
ductlon, Now. we can ward..olf such crisis
only by placing the consumer by the side of
the pro'"cey--the Loom and 7+nrii by the side
of the Plough.
In former letter ! gave some official statis-
tics showing, in part, the agricultural wealth
Of Cecil county, together with that1of the
State of Maryland. l did not in that letter,
place the product per acre at anything like
the highest producing point at which grain
has, long since, been grown in Cecil. Many
of your readers will rccollcct the crop our late
valued citizen, Col Allan Wlann raised,
wi'hom trying, which my recollection serves
me, was over 10 bush,lS''pc, acre, for ten sue
cosSive years, with tHlt Il very slight dressing
of common nanu.cs. mention this to show
What has been done at little cost and What
may lie done BY better management. 1t re
qulirs no Ec'"ace to make Cecil hand producc
an interest equal u $1,000 per acre, above
the cost Of lllagc and seed. At the present
prices, clover, PLASTER lime and rood cMiirGiiou
will do it..
Within few days past, 7 have seen the
Pubic Ledger of the 4th..inst., containing an
extract from the Lopdon Chronitir. showing
the state Of The Iron Trade of the World in
which the quantity made by Great Britain is
put down at $3.50 900 tons; United States,
100, 900 tons France, $4,000 tons; Russia,
$4,000 tons: Austria, 100 Geo; Sweden,
1872 600 tons Prussia, 1000 toys, masking
a total Of 1928, 500, annually.
Inl706 bit l25, 600 tons were mad. in
Great Britain, 4OS tons (which, on rs ere
exported In 1853 she made 2,3SG,t MS
Of which, i'll len months, ending "r
9TH last, Sic exported 500 1000 tons
000,00O worth Of iron was by her exp in
that time and BY far hclargcst portion of this
enormous quantity was taken by the United
States. So says We.CMomcle.
In 1913 but 20O, 600 tons ofiron were made
in the United States in 1917 it had reached
500,oo0 tons, which fell by the operation of
the Tariff flS4G, in four years to 100 600
as stated by the Ledger.
This shows a deplorable situation Of the
Iron Trade Of the United States, as well as
other great interest, al growing out of TO say
the lcas' y bun2ling legislation. Had ,hc Pro-
cctivr Tariff of 1898, OF that of 1872, contnu-
ed, the rate Of increase of iron manufacturing
would have doubtless, continued till now.
The same ratio-quadrupling in every four
ycars-as was the case under the Tariff Of
1872, would now have raised the making of
IRON far above that of Great Britain and the
United States together, and fully equal to all
ON. wants and to spare; and would have 50
firmly established the Iron. Trade and Iron
Makers that all the nations of the Garth could
not have arrested the business.
The stopping of the drain of the precious
metals to pay for iron would have prevented
the humiating necessity of adultcratins the
gold aye! the pure gold of California, and thc
silver. with the view of keeping it from all
being shipped abroad, to pay for articles
which we could have produced at home, of
better quality, while the operatives would
have eaten our breadstuhs and provisions.
There is no state in the Union, of the same
extent as Maryland, that is more interested i'll
the Iron Trade. Her mountain ranges arc big
with the best iron orc and coal-thc iron cx-
tending down the slopes even to tide water
(witness the excavations at Canton:) and be-
sides our capitalists arc liberal and cntcrpri-
sing and our workmcn skilful. They had
$795,G50 capital invested in the trade in $40
Which had increased to an outlay of capital in
1850 of 81 ,4Sl 900; Notwithstanding the I'M
wise legislation against the trade.
Cecil county being the pioneer in the trade,
has been unfortunate in the amount of suffer
ing by it. 1t was at the old Cecil Furnace,
on Principle Creek, where many of the can
non of the war of 1872 and also of the Revolu-
ton were cast. The remains of the old fur
mace are yet to be seen. All those works were
destroyed by the Bntish-first in LII and
again in 1913; but strange to say, notwitt-
standing those acts of worse than Vandalism
by the British, together with the burning of
| Havre Grace, Frenchtown, Frcdcricktown
Gcorgetown-the laying waste of our fertile
ficlds-tlc destruction of our Commerce and
fisheries, and tho stealing of our negroes
strange TO say, large majority of the cjti-
zens Of Cecil county general cast their votes
in favor of the special interests of those same
British Nandals.
Why is this so Who can tell The very
thought that such is the fact, and of the effect
on this fair region, is so mlmilating that
cannot but call on the young men of the whole
Union, and particularly those of Cecil, where
the outrages were perpetrated, to ponder well
those worse than savage but historical facts,
and h.,,,,