The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
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Swine 26.3OI 1893 30,354,2l3 16
Sheep l9,1I1,374 2l,723,22O 13
The increase of population during this
decade was more than 35 per cent, exceed
ing that of neat cattle one-half, more than
double that of swine, and nearly treble that
of sheep. 1t needs no deep reading in poll
teal economy to be aware that in proper
ton as the demand for an article exceeds
the supply, the price of that article will
rise. Assuming that horsefesh is not a
staple of our food, and excluding the in
crease of horses and mules, the average in
crease in other quadrupedal live stock is
17s per cent, an inconsiderable fraction
more than half the per centage of growth
of population.
i 1t will be manifest, also, upon reflection,
to every one to whom it is not already fam
liar, that in new countries, not thickly set
tied and titled. the amount of live stock ex-
ceeds in an extraordinary proportion that
in older lands, where the population is dense
and the original and natural fertility of the
soil exhausted. Taking. then, New Eng
land and New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia,
on the one hand, their live stock has de-
creased, within ten years, nearly 8,5OO,OOO
head, the aggregate being:
1910. 1850. Decrease
Horses and
mules 1,612,833 1,529,189 1904
Neat cattle GLIB, 500 6,OS3.e4I SO. 72S
Swine 6,e97 1875 4,909,334 1,938, OI3
Sheep 11,S72,622 5,45O,678 6,22I $50
In the six States of Ohio, Indiana, Hi
noics, Kentucky and Missouri, on the other
hand, the increase has been more than
100000 head. the aggregate being:
1910. 1850. Increase
Horses and
mules 1,8O4,O92 2,11G,15O 3l2,165
Neat Cattle 4,3O7,952 5,28O,433 972,45I
Swine 11,72G,2O9 13,843,O4l 2.I16,832
Sheep 5,l97,9O6 S,435,650 3,237, 752
But even in these States neither the in
crease of cattle nor of swine has kept pace
with that of population.
In the meanwhile, the expectation of an
imal products has more than trebled within
the last twenty years, the average export
of provisions being in value as follows:
Period of 1886 40 inclusive, $63,O50,OOO
| 1912 '46 g 11O,52l, 900
| 1847 81 d" 194,33O, 600
| 1852 SO 236, 679. 900
and we have thus the double process of
diminishing production and increasing ex-
portation, which seems likely to experience
no immediate check.
To recapitulate: the amount of live stock
has actually decreased in the Atlantic
States, while the number of consumers has
gone on steadily augmenting. In the great
producing States of the West. its percen-
tage of increase has not been half that of
the growth of the population. The expor-
tation of provisions has trebled within TWEEN
ty years.
The continual concentration of people
into cities and their suburbs, is also to be
taken into consideration as diminishing the
aggregate of producers. These facts we
consider, to afford q satisfactory explana-
ton of the augmentation of the prices of
animal food within ten years. throughout
the county. and especially along the sea-
board. -Boston Atlas.
! BRITISH INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
The public income for the year ending the
3lst of March, 1856, amounted to e7O, 552,-
AS against 464 ,O9l,5 7I in 1855, and the
expenditure to f93, 1890 against CO.
236,Sl7 in 1855. Thus there was an excess
of expenditure over income in 1876 of
f22, 597 los, and an excess of f6,I45,256
in the year 1954-'55.
The REvENUE-REPoRT OF FINANCE
CoMMITTEE.-Mr. Boyd, Chairman of the
Finance Committee, has made a report to
the Senate of "A bill to amend tho 99th
chapter of the Revised Code, entitled Rev
enue." The document has been printed
and laid g: The tables of members and the
consideration of the subject will be COM
menced early this week in the Senate.
The estimates of the committee are for an
increase of about 100000 to the revenue
Among other items, tits proposed to raise
the tax on land to fifteen cents. and on polls
to fifty cents.--RaLeigh Standard.