Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-11-14
Higgins Ferry Nov. 7th 1855.

Higgins Ferry Nov. 7th 1855.
THE CROPS AND PRICES.
Eotatoes.-We hear that one Of our house
holders has contracted for his potatoes the COM
ing year, at fifteen cents per bushel.-Syracuse
Standard.
And we are informed that party in this city
has contracted for several thousand bushels in
Monroe county, at fourteen cents per bushel.
The day Of high prices of provisions is fast pas
sing away.-Albany Express.
Such articles rs the above meet us ut every
turn. We scarcely open city paper, but we find
that the editor has heard or been Informed that
-four will be cheaper than it has been for century,
and that potatoes will not be worth digging.
There appears to be settled determination on the
part Of editors to write down the price Of provi-
sions. Perhaps they have entered into a conspi.
racy for this purpose. We need not inform our
readers that all such reports as the purchase of
potatoes in this country ut fourteen cents q
bushels, are false We think the price of pro-
visions must and should come down, but they
will not decrease in value as fast, or become as
low as many are led to suppose by these false
subject, from the Rural New Yorker:
The newspapers, with their accustomed dill.
gence in the public service, are hurrying up
"good reports" of the present wheat crop. |
have reason to remember that they did the same
thing last year, and as was then some thirteen
lunar months Younger than now am, believed
them. Twelve dollars barrel for -four does
not comport very we'll with the price of news.
No pt IN nh. fotr1 fhot
the men of the quill have hoped themselves into
the belief that -four must come down." But
will it! That is the question. "Illinois, Ken
tucky, Tennessee South and West gener.
ally have bountiful 'harvests." "Al other Sec
tions the same" By singular stretch of chari-
ty, we are expected to believe that these tourists
and newspaper letter writer's" who generally
furnish the data, would know field of,wheati if.
ittiey should seen: Ono thing is certain-it re-
quires practiced eye to form even a toerable
survey. In the spring, the bare ground obtrudes
ious showers" make it all right. Look again
tallest wheat makes the most show; u bold
front has shut out of view much that is small
and thin. Add to this, the leading roads gener.
ally pass through the best cultivated country,
and of course travellers are liable to be too
fayorably impressed.
"Of other sections I know nothing except
from hearsay," but of the State of New York
believe do know something from actual obser-
vation and careful inquiry. / am satisfied that
the yield in this State will be one-ffth less than
"good crop" Why is this matter slurred
over in harvest reports? Is the failure, marked
and decided as it is, in the fine wheat section
along lake Ontario, west of Rochester, of no nc
count! Can important portions of the fine
counties Of Monroe, Livingston, Gencssec, On
tario, &C., be cast out in our reckoning? Or
has it come to this, that "purc Gencsee' is
brought exclusively from Wisconsin and Geor-
gia? So, too, Of the corn CROP Why is it not
stated-for sensible men have known it these
three weeks at least,-that the corn crop of
New York will be one.thrd less than nm average.
Look in almost any public journal, and see
how the article on "crops" is made up. In
wheat matters, sections that export very little,
and that of poor quality, are quite as conspicu-
Gus as the noted wheat regions in their lists of
authorities, the Sundown Chronicle and the
Catamount Express, are quoted with as much
JUNCTION and emphasis as the Ohio State Journal
and The Rochester dalics. AS in patent medi-
cine, it is the number of certificates that is re-
lied upon.
"The buyers of wheat and flour, like our
party" in politics, have a"clear majority" and
it is observable that there is disposition to
write and talk down the price of wheat. This
article is written not to influence any mans
judgment rs to the quantity or value Of The crop,
but to ask farmers to examine all the facts for
themselves, and then form opinions of their own.
Of course the price must come to the worlds
standard. London and Liverpool will settle the
question. With war and universal scarcity to
begin with, nothing short of a concurrence of
good crops in all or nearly all wheat growing
regions, can bring the price to q low fgure-a
concurrence that there is now not the slightest
reason TO expect. Prices being up, it is a very
different matter from what 1t would be if they
were down, As it is it will require decided
surplus TO bring them down surplus that
exists in all probability, only in the excited ima-
gnatons Of consumers of -four"
The crop of potatoes in this part of the State
will be large. On high, or we'll drained land po-
tatocs look exceedingly fine; but unless we
very much mistake the signs, we are again to be
troubled with the Potato Rot.-Genesee Farmer.
SOUTHERN FLoUR.-Therc is one interesting
feature in the -four trade of the present autumn.
We refer to the lact that the great bulk of flour
brought to the New York market thus far has
been derived from the Southern States, which
have not until this year been looked to for that
commodity. The numerous railroads opening
up all through these States are furnishing new
outlets to extensive grain producing regions
which have heretofore stood far in the back
ground. The direct benefits of railroads 10
agriculture are thus being shown. In connec-
ton with this circumstance, it is TO be relnem-
bered that we have still remaining mt the West
and Northwest, the -four which in ordinary years
would have supplied The place now occupied by
this Southern product. This alone will sensi-
bly, affect future prices.-N. Y Tribune.
IMMENSE BUsINEss.-As showing the money
expended in Boston by the visitors TO the late
oor;oulturol pyhihiton in that rity L. ia stoted