New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-21

acres. We urge you for youc 0va sake, for ths
sake OF Humanity, to increase the products o.
earth this year Eudesvor to add {, the suppl
of whatever will sustain the life Of mao or bss.
during the eIigsncies of next ~ioter. Consider
yourself appointed BY Pfoviiencs & special com
mitsee to provide asaias. f,mi1e, such as las.
.esson afflicted this fertile county
LIE. the present titai.ion Of Affairs be vel,
thought OF. la Consequence Of the dem sui foe
l,borers upon public works for several years
pat, they have been drawn off from agriculture.
Suddenly, with reduced supply Of gr,ia, c,m,s
fore gu dem..d, aud tuch an Increase 10 tbs
value Of beef cattle that immense quantities Of
corn have been used in feeding beeses for tas
market. Then the unprecedented drouta of last
summer cut CT the crops to such al extent that
the demand. to carry through hard winter aud
late spring, has completely exhausted the store
honses OF old grain, aud there is probably
smaller stock on hand this day than We have had,
in comparison with the population, any time in
hslf century. We are no. alarmists, but VS.
deem is necessary 10 arouse he country -
seLse Of the exigeDcies Of present circumstances.
What would be the reealt Of saosher droush,
similar to that Ct LIST summer And have We
any assurance that there will not cons snotherl
Are Lot drouths ra' her apt to follow in sue.
cefsion Of several years. Su,h has been the ex-
perience Of tits country, and personally Of our
selves.
Aud xha. would be the reiuls if this season
thould grove IS disastrous as the last There
are now no full gransres of old corn to fail back
npon through the Wess. Those grsaaries have
tsen exhausted long iince. For weeks past the
fsIuers of Ohio, Indiana illinois, aud other
great c,rn growing States, have been ekiug oil;
their cora ard preserving the lives of their cattle
by cultl down forest trees for them TO browse
upon. A writer in Putnam County, Iadisla,
ssys:
I'VE hsve q very protracted winter, and feel for
stock bss generally been exhausted The farmers are
cutting Gown n4ber for their stock TO feel on A
number OF cattle have died from starry .tion, and fur
Ii er heavy losses viii, fear, be sustained in this
way. Stock hogs TO be found dead in heaps
Il rough the WOODS TIE fact s, arc in deplora-
be condition in this section Of country. Corn /, 500.
: err bushel but it IL not to bs had TO any extent.
GAS As a soc Wheat, 81 50'
From dozen OtneI sources We have the same
accounts. Is nos this sufncienS cAlse
for alarm
Let us, then, urge upon the farmers of our
country to plant one acre more. Ho,rdiog to
increase the price, or buying up to sell again,
will DO ne good. We want more corn planted
we want more bushels raised-snd then we want
more economy 10 its use. You may afford to
waste corn at ten cents a bushel-you cannot
afford to waste it at dollar. Do not let youe
lard waste itself in idleness. As an individual
on may not need its products, but as one Of the
great human family it is sinful to thus deprive
human beings Of food that might BIZ grown upon
that land. You may not require the product of
that acre which We implore you to plant but
your fellow man does. In the name Of humanity,
let him lave il; 1t is your duty, and his right.