Smyrna times., 1855-12-05
Seeding Wheat,
The Prospect Of Prices in 1856.

me prospect Of Prices in 1856.
Some of the Southern papers oro uroino. a.
farmers to put as much of their land as possible
10 wheel seed, The Lynchburg Tirgiaian
nolus mat wheet-seedmg in that State NAV be
continued as late as the middle of Decembor
ds excellent wheat has often been made. east
OF the Blue Ridge, from December sccd;pp
That high and remunerating prices in rrair
VIII prevail next year, the Virgnian considers
beyond contingency, and yet, it adds. we do
not believe from information received That a.,
increased breadth of land at III commepsur.to 70
with the prospective demand for. and nrjco of
breadstutfs, has been put to seed in this nort;or
of the State. Taking the lowest estimates of
the deficiency of grain in England and France
the dehcIt for the two countries may be mt
down at ifty-twO million bushels As tbis do
hclency must be made up before the next bar-
vest, the question arises, whence are tbase
supplies to come? 1t has been ascertained that
the crops of wheat and rye throughout the
whole OF North Europe also are deficient. and
especially in the Baltic pro ovnces and the info
rior of Germany, where flour is at this rnornant
selling at 7Os. per sack. In fact, the imnorta-
tion of breadstuffs from these sources and ou
others, except the United States, including
Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, italy and
Egypt, will hardly be sufficient to meet tho do
fciency of 2O,000,000 bushels in France
Canada and the Baltic Provinces are NOT rolled
on tor more than six or seven millions of bush- !
els in ltaly-from which the expectation of
breadstufis has, in fact, been prohbited-tope-
ther with Spain, Portugal, Egypt, and the Pro-
Vlnces OF the Danube, can scarcely do more
than furnish the balance of thirteen or fourteen
millions, of the deficit in France. Hence giv-
ing the surplus from these sources to France
there still remains the vacuum in England.
ranging from capacity of thirty to fifty mil
lions OF bushels, to fiji. For this supply the
English importers can only look to the United
States; and if the supply--say forty million
oushels-be obtained from this country, we
shall send more grain to England than was ex.
ported in wheat and flour to all ports of the
world during the year 1855. Our expectations
for that year, according to the New York
Economist, amounted to less than twenty mine
million bushels. The quota exported to Eng.
land, according to the English Board of Trade
returns, was an average of 976,93O quarters.
Or less than eight million bushels per annum.
or the eightyears from 1s45 to 1853 inclusive.
IT. then, as has been assumed, the whole
lvailable surplus exported last year from the
United States to every part of THE world, should
,e supplied to England, there of course will
remain deficit. And even should we be able
o export this required amount, we shall be as
ast year, without surplus for home consunp- l
ion at the close of the season, and paving, for j
hat purpose, prices as high as in Liverpool
10 conclusion, we win merely add the follow Z
ng important fact as stated by the virginian
Dur harvest is, nan average, a month in adj
yance of the harvest of Europe, land will con-
come in next seasonjust at that period
when deficiency will be most sensibly felt J
broad, and, in fact, when prices, ruled BY actu-
] want, must be irrespective Of The prospect '
rom English oreontinental harvests u p. ~. d