American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1856-02-28
DEFICIENCY.
INCREASE.
Gain, in all

1t seems. therefore, that $4,000, 900
bushels of Rye and Oats. fused for whisky
and animals, have been substituted by
the use of Indian corn. In regard to
wheat it is uncertain how far il has been
substituted by corn.
These facts indicate two things very
plainly, viz:
lst. That Indian Corn is gradually tax
ing the place of other grains in use, for
which it is equally adapted.
Cd. That notwithstanding this, its
growth is increasing more rapidly than Mat
of the population.
These facts are conclusive of great ag-
ricultural principle: that in our country.
Indian Corn is the great cereal Staple. and
that with GRASS it must be the great basis
of future production, both in regard to men
and animals.
But while we discover this fact in our
country. we discover that precisely the re-
verse is the case in other countries. Indi-
an Corn is not the staple of any country
out of America. The necessary conse-
quence Of this is, that as the. wants Of Eu-
rope for breadstuifS increase, they must be
supplied by the only staple article of grain
which America eau afford to send-that is,
Indian Corn. This is one of the inevitable
results of the state OF civilization and COM
merce which has grown up in the last half
century. The effect Of tina: condition OF
things Is gradual but certain. Prior to
1854, We exported scarcely any Indian
corn to Europe either in bulk, or in pork
or whisky, which are but the equivalents
of corn. With the Irish famine COM
menced the era of Indian corn expectation.
Leaving the yeaas 1846-'7-'8 out of view,
the increase Of corn expectation has been
gradual but regular. We give below the
average export of corn and pork, in 1887
SO, and the average of the same articles
in 1852 '3-'4.
Average export of Corn in Ia3T-sg bushels 0Ce 0Ot
Avg value Of Pork, Lard and Bacon, in 1897 -,
-o-'9,'..... 81 yI3S ,Sjc
Avg. amount of Corn exported in bulk and
Pork IN 1o37-'S'9, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3,eG6, ,94e
Average amount of Corn exported in 1852
Average value Of PORK Lard and Bacon cx '-'OO
ported in ls52-'s-4 s5 ,6s2, ,OOC
Average amount Of Corn exported ia bulk
and Pork, in 1884,. 1899, ,49'
We see by the above tables that the av.
erage amounts of Indian corn exported tc
Europe has incresed nearly fvefold in
eighteen years. 1t doubles in about sever
years, leaving out the great increase oc
casioned by such contingencies as the Irish
famine. Such is the condition of Europe,
however, that this increase will now pro
ceed with accelerated velocity. There
can be no doubt that the period is not fal
of, when we shall export in bulk and il
pork, beef, lard and tallow more thar
one hundred millions Of bushels of Cor,
per annuna, and when this export, and tha
of wheat, oats and rye, will be more valu
able than that OF cotton rice and sugar.
1t is true that the tendency of population
towards cities, towns, and civic arts. by
which great and injurious diversion il
made from agricultural labor, may b'
checked by the high profits of agriculture
but it is not probable. Man is a gregari
Gus animal. and although looking ruiz
steadily in the face, as he did in Rome anC
Hindoostan, & as he does now in China, h
is 10th to leave the seductons of cities ant
the pleasure of the arts, till ruin has come
and reformation is impossible.