White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-09-01
fu tbe farmer.
The Largest Harvest on Record.

NOW that the world Is apparently ABOUT
to take leave Of its tranquility for some
time to come. ct least we are to be made
more sensible of the loss we sustain,
through having. BY way of parting gift
from the goddess Of peace, the largest har-
vest on record-the largest wheat harvest
that was ever produced upon this earth.
There has certainly beea greater breadth
of wheat laid out, and nearly all seems
turning out unusually well. In all the old
countries of Europe about the usual crop
seems to have been sown, and the harvest
promised extraordinarily well at last &C.
counts. Within the last ten years Ireland
has multiplied its productions of wheat
amazingly, and so has France under its
more scientific modes of sgricnlture-so
much so indeed, that within but short
period quite a quantity of the very finest
wheat arrived in New York, which was
sold at Eve cents per bushel more than
our best, on account of its quality and
cleanliness. In Canada, as in this coun-
try, every year adds to the quantity of
land cultivated, and this year, with the
exception of a single night Of frost injur
ing the crops in few Counties in New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, the ground
Bown in wheat has yielded most abund-
sntly. From New York to Arkansas
and North Alabama, and from Califor-
mia through to the Atlantic, more land
has thus been cultivated, by far, than ever
before. The season has been esrly, no
weevil, nor rust, nor smut, seems to have
marred the prospects Of the farmer, and
this State certainly has experienced such
= return for the labor of the husbandman
as it hardly has received since 1850.
The immediate effect Of this all over
the world will be in a measure to counter
act the effects Of the war now raging in
Italy. These effects would have been felt
most severely by the men not engaged in
war. They are provided with food by
their governments. the poor masses OF
women and children and families at dis
lance, who feel the effects of war in the
augmented price of every loaf Of bread
q price they are less than ever able to af-
ford, and who waste and wither and die
from the thousand diseases caused by in
sufficient food-these are the persons who
really feel most the evils and the curse of
war. and these are going to be most effec-
tually relieved by the abundant crops Of
the present year.
In this State the immense wealth added
to US all by this harvest will not so imme-
diately as it will steadily appear. Our
farmers are not spectators they are by
far the most forehanded class of men in
the country. They have some of the very
largest and best barns probably in the
world, and can afford to wait to sell until
the prices suit them.
There will then, by all these crops, be
a silent but general and steady expansion
produced, and one beginning at the right
end. Not speculative expansion this,
from usual facilities of European credit,
but from the augmented wealth of the
producer, leading him to desire larger
amount of goois from the merchant, en-
aiding him to cultivate broader acres for
the next season and raising the price o.
all the land he possesses. The operations
of this throughout the whole West as vel
as our own State. will tend to counteraci
the light money market and depression.
OF all securities, owing to the European
war, and put merchants in an easy and
solid position. Many of the oldest debts
out West, given up as worthless, will now
be collected. If the war continues, prices
will and must rise next spring, however
they may fall just now. In Europe the
labor of million and a half of able.
bodied men will be taken from the fields
to destroy instead of producing, anil the
longer the war continues, the greater must
be the demand on us-the greater the
stimulus to enlarge our wheat fields.
Ia this State, where the climate is mild
and labor free, where railroads and canals
facilitate the producer in finding the best
market, where towns, and churches. and
school-houses and colleges render goods
and all social, religious and educational
advantages easily attainable, farms are
all things considered, really far cheaper
than they are out in the far West. o
course, land may be bought at less pric,
out West, but it will cost fifty to seventy
five cents to get bushel Of wheat to al
equal market, while equal social advanta
ges are not to be had for any amount o
money. No land is really cheaper in tn
whole Union than much that may b
bought along our extended railroads, q
from fifty to seventy-five dollars an acre
These lands will and must rise in the es
timation Of experienced farmers.-PhRa
Ledger.