Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-07-18
As OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES RIsHrs
RICHMOND w HIG.
To coHnEseoNDENTs.
The Breadstlf. War.
tFRuUAY TOnNING, JULY ~, 1850.

Just about this time every year the spectators
begin their attacks upon the farmers To represent the
crops both at home and abroad, more sbundan,
than they have ever been known, is the obvious nat
ural and universal mode Of assault The farmers,
dispersed and ignorant Of the facts at the mercy
Of the SPECTATORS who, though comparatively few,
are vet powerful in virtue Of their union and combi
nation. We have already the usual vague and
general assertions with respect To the crops in this
country. But think observe. thai the
sertions not accompanied with quite much
buster and the same show Of confidence
Exhibited last year This may argue, that the crops
are even less good than they last season. when
the rosult fell sixty millions short OF the estimates
Our own country not supplying sufficient field for
the fabrcations OF the spectators, they already
bringing to their assistance the most distant regions
Of Europe. letter from st Petersburg is published
in the London Times, and transferred TO own
papers which asserts roundy that the crop through
out Russia is OF extraordinary abundance This
MAJ be so-but the lctterwriter at the time Of wri-
ting, could not have known it-and we do not De-
lieve word Of it. Our for incredulty is this
The southern districts Of Russia in the direction OF
the Black Seattle best wheat-growing portion oi
the Empire-were at the time Of seeding, last year,
overrun by foreign domestic armies; and il is not
probable that half the usual crop But
we shall hear oi this immense crop-Possibly aug
mented by every steamer-until the American far
meIs and their wheat have parted company.
Of the same character is the report from France
by the Niagara The crops are splendid" This,
too, may be so--but we don't believe it, For nearl,
q notwithstanding about the Goth May, and end
ING 2Oth .Iune-there three foundations in the
larger portion Of France the most destructive within
the memory OF man. II the wheat that was over
flowed not destroyed, the month of rain snf
fcient to infict serious injury upon all the crop
The Niagara also tells us that the weather was
magnificent in England for harvest and that another
fortnight Of the same kind would insure good crop
This statement would imply, and was probably de-
signed TO create the impression that on the 4th Of
July harvest had already commenced in England
This we know is not the fact Harvest rarely begins
before August in England and previous advices sta
ted that the whest three weeks later than usual
But these and similar tales We may continue to ex
Pect
We near people continually complaining thst
wheat is too high that 81 so a bushel is an enor-
NOUS price These are the consumers and specua-
tors, who make this outcry. The producers, how
ever, know that ii 90 is not a more remuneratIve
price than 30 cents was five years ago Labor
mas advanced q hundred per cent within that pc
ROD and the price of every article which the farmer
consa mes has been greatly increased Besides this
in consequence of the difficulty Of the seasons, the
vast quantity Of insects and the general of GA
anO, the cost OF production is largely augmented, -
Lands, which IN 1850 would give a fair yield o
wheat without assistance, viii produce little nj
nothing without generous application Of gusno
But Independently of this indispensable addition t,
the cost Of production the increase of the preciou,
metals which has inflated the price of all other
tices, should not be without its influence upon til,
staff Of life In our opinion, wheat will cease to b,
generally and extensively cultivated in Virginia, an
del existing circums tances, for less than 81 30 tn,
hush .I