Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-12-12
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From the American Farmer.
THE WHEAT CRoP---THE PROS
Poets FOR PRICES.

Il
PECTS FOR PRICES.
By this time, we suppose, the CONNER
cial papers of the country, which have
been scouting the idea of any deficiency
in the United States, or of any extraorr
binary demand from Europe, for our
breadstuffs, are beginning to find the sad
realities of the state of affairs which we
have announced from time to time, since
the late harvest. Notwithstanding i'm.
mense freights upon our railroads, from
this, that. and the other quarter, still the
price of grain and -four is gradually and
surely advancing-and every successive |
arrival from Europe brings tidings of a |
state of affairs which is really appalling
TO the human mind. From nearly every
country in Europe, the intelligence reach
es US, Of scarcity in the necessaries of
life. that is scarcely paraleled, we believe.
in the history of the present century,
Not only is it ascertanied, that England
and France are now in our markets for
our breadstuffs and provisions, but Rus
sia also. from whose ports in the Baltic
heretofore, the millions of Europe have
received their supplies, is competitor
for our products, their own territories not
attording the necessary quota for the de-
mands of that mighty empire. We have
in our last issue given sufficient data for
our readers to form their own calculations
as to the state OF things, present and pros
pective upon this all.important subject,
and must content ourselves, with our col
umns overburthened with the proceedings
Of our recent State Show, to give the fol-
lowing concise statement Of the prospects
for the coming year, that those interested
may govern themselves accordingly.
From the Baltimore American.
SEEDING WHEAT. The Prospects for
Prices in l856.-Some Of the Southern
papers are urging farmers to put as much
of their land as possible to wheat seed.
The Lynchburg Virginian holds that
wheat seeding in that State may be con-
tinued as late as tie middle of December,
rs excellent wheat has often been made,
east of the blue Ridge. from December
seeding. That high and remunerating
prices in grain will prevail next year, the
Virginian considers beyond q contingent
cy, and yet, it adds. we do not believe
from Information received that an increas-
ed breadth Of land at all commensurate
price of breadslutfs has been put to seed
in this portion OF the State. Taking the
lowest estimates of the deficiency of grain
in England and France, the deficit for the
two countries may be put down at fifty
two million bushels. AS this deficiency
must be made up before the next harvest,
the question arises, whence are these sup
plies 10 come? 1t has been ascertained
that the crops of wheat and rye through
out the whole Of North Europe also are
deficient, and especially in the Baltic
provinces and the interior Of Germany,
where flour is at this moment selling at
7Os. per sack. In fact the importation Of
breadstufs from these sources and all
others. except the United States, inclu-
ding Denmark. Sweden, Spain, Portu-
gal, Italy and Egypt, will hardly be suf
ticient to meet the deficiency of 10000
900 bushels in France. Canada and the
Baltic provinces are not relied on for more
than six or seven million bushels, and
ltaly-from which the expectation of
breadstufs has, in fact, been prohibited
together with Spain, Portugal, Egypt,
and the provinces of the Danube, can
scarcely do more than furnish the ball
auce, Of thirteen or fourteen millions, of
the deficit in France. Hence giving the
surplus from these sources to France,
there still remains the vacuum in England,
ranging from capacity Of thirty to fifty
millions of bushels, to i'll. For this sup.
ply the English importers can only look
to the United States and if the supply
say forty million bushels-be obtained
chon
grain to England than was exported in
wheat and -four to all parts of the world
during the year 1854. Our expectations
for that year, according to the New York
Economist, amounted to less than twenty
nine million bushels. The quota expor-
ted toEngland, according to the English
Board Of Trade returns, was an average
Of 976.9 $50 quarters, or less than eight
million bushels per annum, for eight years
from l845 to 1853 inclusive.
II then, as has been assumed, the whole
available surplus exported last year from
the United States to every part of the
world, should be supplied to England,
there of course will still remain a deficit
And even should we be able to export
this required amount we shall be as last
year without a surplus for home consump-
ton at the close OF the season, and pay
ing for that purpose. prices as high as in
Liverpool. In conclusion we will merely
add the following important fact as stated
by the Virginian Our harvest is, on an
average, q month in advance of the har-
vest of Europe, and will consequently
come in next season just at that period
when deficiency will be most sensibly
felt abroad, and, in fact, when prices,
ruled by actual want, must be irrespective