Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-10-19

Indian Corn=saitl frnduct- -'-Anhuehce IN"
Results.
Tdan observer Of the Al r,culture aud climate
Of the United States, II is quite evident that
corn IL the most impodant produce Of land IN
his country. Estimating, AZ We may faiFly
DO, the agsrepste c,ol of 1859 at nine hundred
miHiORs Of bushels. aud ,he price, OF an average
of 40 cent, land IL is probably more), the corn
crop is worth three hundred and sirty mpioas "
| dollars considerably more than double that
of the cotton crop (ol which so much is said),
and Of much greater relative importance TO the
comfort and subsis ance OF the people, The
quictness with which this crop is gathered, and
passes into the general current OF commerce,
stands in singular contrast with the continual
buster and parade Of cotton and sugar planters
There ia a reason for this, in the TACT, that cot
ton enters so largely iuto our troiRn exchan-
ues-aud ON it depends s,m0eh the value ofno
groes. that most sensitive Of all commercial ell
| ements IL is time, however, that we had
learned. that the Republic did not depend on
ither cottonor negroes, and especially, that
| the Western people who will never bo much IN
tercsted in those articles, should know somo.
| thing of their own products, and interests. In
this present year 1859, il it were not for Indian
corn thore would be almost famine in the
| land But that product is abundant, and en-
ters into so many departments Of food and con-
v,nieuce that il stands in place Of the dohcien
oy in other crops. 1t lattens hogs, it fttens
cattle, it enters into the food Of man, and makes
the basis of the profitable, though dangerous
commerce, in domestic and manufactured Ii.
ouors. In 1858, there were 200, 600 hogs kill
cd in Ohio, and in some form exported. II
eqnir,d ely ht millions Of bushels Of corn, be.
| sides other food, 10 fltien them. This corn made
the pork lard, lard oil, candles, DC, which were
exported from Cincinnati and other ports. Ten
millions Of bushels v ere made into whisky
Two or three millions more made fat cattle;
and thus the surplus corn Of Ohio was manu-
featured into various forms of food, light and
iquor. In this, there was the treble profit Of
the farmer, merchant and manufacturer, all re-
allied in one community. The fact that Gin
cinnat concentrates the results Of this triple
operation, is no snail element in her rospen
I TtCeniV millions Of dollars per anRHm will
not cover the commercial operations Of Gin
cinuati arising from tie single article, Indian
Corn. To have a good crop, (Which in this re-
gion is generally The case) is Of vast impor-
lance to this community,
The crop of this year, we have reason to be
ieve, is abundsnt, but probably not greater, il
as much, AS in 1857. Taking several years to
eethcr, the crops of corn in the Ohio Valley
States rapidly increase; especially so in the
States Of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, where the
population increases rapidly The crop in amy
one ear must depend on a combination of the
people to cultivate, the adaptation of soil, and
the change of seasons. With the increase a
people, the soils adapted to corn (and in these
States it is more than half the whole surface
will be more and more cultivated. The guam
tity of acres planted will Of course increase
from year to year; but the average product pei
acre depends much upon the season. This is
fully illustrated by the Ohio statistics of Agd
culture.
The following table of four years cultivation
of Indian corn in Ohio. will exhibit the rela.
ton of surfaces and averages in the periods oi
large and email crops: "a