Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-08-22
[Trpn the Chicago Proas.l
TIC Grain fscp CT 1854 WorG abcus
EtEaAG anG Ertccss

Etnaad anc Prices.
Our recept exrositions Of The agricultural
resources Of Illinois and of the probable pro-
cuction Of the current year, have we are
gratifed to know. given the most lively sat-
isfaetion to all citizens who entertain pro-
per degree Of pride in our noble State. The
estimates, at frst took every one by sur
prise, by reason of their magnitude, be-
cause all classes have been accustomed to
look back to the production Of 1919, as re-
yealed in the U. S census returns Of 1850
as the standard Of our capabilities But so
palpable, so plain and convincing was the
reasoning by which these estimates were de-
raoustrated to be inside the natural facts
that DO well-informed person pretonds to
doubt their general accuracy. 1t is wholly
unnecessary, therefore, to add to what we
have previously said upon this branch of the
subject. The croakers who last spring pre-
dicted famine and general bankruptcy for
the West, and who labored assidu0uslv, but
in vain, to bring about verifcation of their
predictions, will of course continue to sneer
at the estimates we have made; but mark
this, there is not man or journal among
them who will dare aasail the arguments by
which they are supported, Or venture upon
!, course Of independent reasoning to nroyo
them erroneous.
The question Of an abundant crop being
satisfactorily settled, the next subject Of in
tsrest relates to the probable demand for our
surplus, and the market value which that
surplus will command. In TIE first place,
We have to remark, that large as our sur
plus is, the amount TO 90 upon the market
will not be rs great as some would suppose
who are not faily Informed on tue Subject
The crop Of 1855 was but little short Of the
estimate we have made for 1867 Of that
crop only about twenty-ou million bushels
were exported from Chicago. 1t is to be re-
membered that home consumption is eon-
stantly on the increase. Our city aud village
population is larger probably by twenty
per cent. than 1t was in 1865. 4 larger
number OF operatives are employed upon
our railroads than then. Stock growing is
followed on a much larger scale, and the
practice of purchasing stock in Missouri,
arkansas, Texas, and other States, driving
shem to illinois, where cora IS abundant,
end feeding them for market, is now very
extensively followed. Ada to this, that the
..ausual length and severity Of last winter,
and the high prices at which breadstufls
have rated the present season, have together
reduced the stock in the State to point &c
,luexampled lowuess. Never bei3rc has a
harvest found the barns aud cribs Of the
>tasa s. near empty as the present one
Fton all Of which il is clear that an unusu-
atty large proportion Of The present years
crop viii be needed fot holao consumption.
IN the next place. the progress of immi-
grstUn Westward has opened a market Cor
> portion os cur surplus in that quarter
kansas. Nebraska, Western iowa. Mime
sofa. aad Northwestern Wisconsin, viii
ceeh ia turn draw upon our efauaries TIE
extent Of this market viii, of course, oa
measured somewhat by the extent of imni-
qsstion il the FALL and spring. and tie a
g3euat @. immigration will Re somewhat pro-
% sianalg to tue largencss Of CIT safgias
crops.
What we hare tad Of shoYt st7eAs N orr
oSn State is true Il stsekz n = the chs,
grain producing States, aaI Il is Jf3ie & lso q
nj The erea. markets Of the county flot
phieh 'aa r.au-p.odueing States ob,an. their
nAaaal supplies. Moreover, il manY { he
Sutes thu production Of breadstuls, i.em
causes hat "a hive not time nos 10 cia-
nerate. Is anpuslly falling of. This feet,
we oppJehen3 is not very generally known,
OF dae weight i act given to its imp 5gta.ee
Lei Us have recaurse again to the gege3a-
items Of the 7. S. census. Take for ex4m-
Ite, the difference in the production of wheat
,ar the years 1910 aud 1850, III the fylIag-
ing States, as shagn by these ofieial fono,.s