The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-06-02
Scarclty-.IIigh Prices.-The Remedy.

From all the newer parts Of the State we
hear bitter complaints of the scarcity and
high price of provisions. And it is very evil
dent that the complaints are we'll founded
or the causes that have produced this scarcity
and high prices, we do not propose to speak;
but we would ask plain, practical and i'm
portant question relative to the future
What shall be done to furnish better supply
for next year? However bountiful our crops
may be the present season, there is no chance
for doubt that high prices will continue, and
the farmer who raises most will grow rich the
fastest. AT present the wheat crop of Mchi-
gan hardly promises an average yield. Too
great reliance should not be placed upon it.
Other crops arc equally as profitable, and we
have heard many farmers remark, that as pri-
ces have ruled for a few years past, no crop
paid larger profit than Indian corn. If this
is true, and we believe it is, we urge upon
our farmers the Importance of growing rs
much of this grain MS possible. OF late years,
oats also, have proved very pioftable.-
Crowd in as many as can properly be done.
Potatoes seem to have fully recovered from
the disease which rendered their cultivation
so proftless somc years ago, and still they
command cxorbitant prices. No crop will
yield larger return than this.
All spring crops, in fact, may reasonably
be expected to command high prices for
year or two at least; and farmers who put
forth every effort TO swell the amount of these |
productions will be sure to reap rich reward |
and at the same time prove great public ben
efactors Gentleman farmers, will not do il |
Appropriate every available acre Of ground |
TO crops of this character. You need no
fear surplus and consequent great deprecia
ton in value. You will find ready market
and high prices for all you can raise the pres
ent season.
But it is said the spring is cold, wet, un-
promising and as indicative of an unproGuc-
tive season. No man knows (parlon us Ry-
any what the season will be- Still, if it is
unproductive, the greater scarcity, the high
or prices and the more need of extra effort
But on this subject Of the season VIC ask you
to listen to careful observer who has had
much experience in Michigan farming.
Hon. Luke Fl. Parsons in the Corunna
Times of April 3Oth, says:
"Some farmers are already becoming dis
couraged that the season is SO cold and back
ward. TO such,wc would say hold on little
whilo longer before You give up. Better
have ccid backward weather now than by
and-by. We predict that we shall have
good corn season. We recollect that in ls-
3s, on tho 23d of April, in tho State of
New York, snow fell to the depth of several
inches and stayed on tho ground until tho
next day. In the same year, we were at the
old Shiawassec Exchange on the 2eth of
April, and saw men driven into the house
from their work. by violent snow Storm
Several snow storms occurred the same year
in tho month of May; and so cold and wet
was the season that during the first two thirds
of the month, farmers throughout the north
ern part Of this State abandoned their ordi-
nary spring work, and set their teams to
breaking up for wheat. About the 26th of
May tho weather changed, when the work
of plowing, sowing and planting commenced.
Most of the corn was planted'in June, and
many fields of potatoes, as late as the mid
die Of the month, and yet, during residence
of 23 wears in the State, we have not wit
messed one as good corn harvest as we had in
the autumn of that year. Although VIC had
an early frost, corn rpened IA early, and the
crop has never been better. The wheat crop
also, was good, though somo fields had
mixture of smut which rendered the article
somewhat unsaleable. The oat crop has new
or been exceeded, and the yield of potatoes
was uncommonly abundant"
lansing Republican.
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