Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-04-09
From the N. Y. Tribune.
To Farmers.

To Farmers.
The questions Of cheap bread for the working
man and whether there will be good supply Of
beef depend upon how the people plant corn.
fpork next fall is scarce and high, those who
have it to sell may think it prosperous time for
them, but it will be more so if the people gen
orally have planted corn. 1t is no true argument
that if all did SO the price would be ''ruinously
low" No country ever was ruined by cheap
bread.
We adjure you therefore, every man Of you
that owns an acre of soil, to plant corn-in the
English acceptation of the word, anything that
wilAmake bread-but more particularly we en-,
treat you to plant maize or Indian corn. We
ask it now because now is the time to prepare
for it. We ask it for the good Of the country
for the benefit of the farmer. Is there man
living who took our advice and increased his crop
last Spring, and who has since had moment of
regret that he did SO? If he has, his deeply
benefited country has not The people return
thanks to God for bounteous crop. Without
it, what would those who buy bread have done
in all this terrible Winter.
Last Spring general effort was made to in
crease the product Of the land Heaven smiled
upon it, and the people were made glad. There
was cause then-there is cause now-that the
people should plant corn-more than was plant
ed last year, for nowhere are the graneries full
nowhere is there surplus laid up against an
country can be independent, no people prosper
GUS and happy. Let them plant corn.
We have had winter of severity such as
those who are most able to work have never
known before, and may never know again. But
that is not ce1ain; the next may be winter of
still greater severity, and if so what demand
there will be for grain-the poor will cry for
bread. Let the farmers plant corn.
Owing to the fact that the ground has been
covered with snow for many weeks, and that
snow is an absorbent of fertilizing elements for
the earth, we dave reason to believe that this
will be great grain-producing season. Let the
people plant corn.
Not day is to be lost. We know that the
ground is still frozen-that the SHOWS of January
still linger on the surface but, we repeat, not a
day is to be lost from your preparation, if you
intend, more than last year, to plant corn.
Let it not be argued that the price of corn is
falling-itis still largely remunerative, while all
its products are equally so. Look at the prices
that farmers have realized for beef and pork,
and though the latter has fallen it is still above
the point of profit to the maker. There is no
prospect that beef will fall below ten cents a
pound on the hoof for all that is corn fed dur
ing the year. At that rate it will surely pay to
plant corn.
There is pressing need now for great crop
as great, or greater than that of last year and
we may have it, if those who read this article
will bear in mind the burden Of its song, and urge
upon all with whom they have any influence, to
plant Compliant more than you intended
more than you did last year, if only by one
grain, one hill, one rod, one rood, one acre, one
feld-still let your motto be that which begins
and ends this appeal-PLANT Corn