, 1859-11-24

Professor Hurlbuyt next proceeds TO speak {
+ the "parched md arid plains Of illinois,
With no cool 2nd moist breeze to mitigate the I
,urnng raya of the sum-; Now, 1t 50 hap"
,ens that God in his .Providence, bestows up
N Illinois moro Of his refreshing showers than
,pon Canada- Ne again quote from Blodsett:
AMOUNT OF RAIN IN INCHES.
SSs:'ss: Sss':;
SS;ss:::::::$,s- SS;ss: Assss; tssa st;s
As the amount Of rain in Southern 1llinois' |
is considerably greater thau in the Northern |
Paft' tie anomaly ofths arid plains remains
'@ssp!s's;$ = = Is. s:a;5s;i. heats, lsa he
thermometer marking 12o deg. in the sun, 60
graphically describea by Prof. un1lss;air1 re
Aave yet to find the psrson who has, expert
enced them Sir J: Richardson describes
heats as intense in lat. GO, as any experienced
in Illinois, and the same is true Of Quebec and
Montreal Those sitting heate, Characteristic |
Of river valleys and wooded tracts, are un.
known to the prairies. Upon them, there is !
always refreshing breeze; and as soon asthe |
suns rim dips below the western horizon the
evenings cool succeeds. Biodgett hos fe- |
marked upon this peculiarly: The languor and
oppressiyeness attending heat Of 90 deg. in
the Eastern States are never felt at such a
temperature On the prairies.
WHEAT.
From climatic considerations our Professor
passes to wheat culture, and herein he is
equally intelligent and exact in details. 'Nuch
Of Illinois" says hr lis on the Southern
limits Of tho wheat region The crops arc
scanty, and the quality is inferior" Mr.. Hut
ton takes up the strain, and INDUCES q little
more freely in sweeping assertions. 'fWestern
wheat makes only second and third
| rate qualities OF -four" And again,
"as' to the quality Of wheat thai,
Of Central Illinois is notoriously inferior. Mer-
chants Of Toronto import large quantities Of. it
at about one half the price Of Canada wheat,
for distil1ery purposes-not being fit for max
ing -four, except what is dcnominated by the
Americans stump tail -four. Let old country
farmers remember this, TINT even supposing
tie yield Of bushels per aero to be the came,
the price in Canada is double, and Of course
the value per aero is double"
Now, hero is about as great an amount Of
gross misrepresentation as could be we'll com-
pressed within tho same compass Of words.
We had supposed, up to the time Of our en-
ightenment by these Canadian soraus that the
wheat Of Southern and Central Illinois was q
very superior article what merchants would
call "a No. l." The millers from Now York,
Ohio, and St Louis, have been in the habit ot
rushing to TINT region Immediately alter l.ar-
vest, and monopoliziug the wheat for theiz
choice brands Of flour, paying au extra price
| Of IL to 20 cents per bushel. We presume,
however, that they will now discontinue the
practice, and the product Of Southern Illinois
will hereafter 60 to supply the Toronto distil
leries. Mr.. J. Exeley, Of the London Corr
+ Exchange, fell into the same error we did, 70,
: after having inspected several samples Of thi:
, | wheat, he reported that they were the fines
| | specimens from the United States he had eve
seen, weighing from G2 to G. lbs, to the bush
cl, and worth IDS. per imperial quarter.
-! Tho "Eg5ptians' III Southern Illinois, 70
:. several years have been raising the white blu
+ stem wheat, with its great, plump berry
, weighing c. to 65 lbs. to tile bushel, and gar
ne.ing from 20 to co bushels to tho acre. They
+. in their darkness, never imagined before TIN
# thcv were On the 'Southern confines Of th
wheat region, where the crops we're scanty AM
D tho quality was inferior"
- The statistics Of agriculture show that th
r Southern limit Of the wheat region in th
a United States is latitude 80 deg. n, and th
best flour furnished OUT markets is broust,
from below lat 40 deg; but in obedience t
=, the dictum Of Professor Huzlburt We mus
= now remove this limit some seven degree
= further north.
= But Nr. 4Truthful-Expositor' Hutton pro
;, nouuces the wheat Of Illinois "stump-tail,
and fit only, after disti1lation, to lubricate til
= throats Of lis countsymea. The crop Of ls5E
= throughout Northern Illinois, where they rais
, - mostly spring wheat, was very inferior, owin
= to the incessant spring rains This ''stumI
:. tall WAS drug in the Chicago market at 50
per bushel, when tho new crop freely cor
49, nanded Is or SOC; aud yet 4r. Hutton woul
; estimate the quality Of all Illinois wheat b
the blightcd crop Of 1858. "Wiptcs aou
- second or third rate, known as Amer
:. can 'stump-tail' But even if it wei
good it is not worth half as muc
in the Illinois market as ours ia i
the Toronto Market When our eyes reste
upon this statement, we thought that Ar. I
r could hardly have been engaged in ono Of Ii
b "c1lm e1positions Of the true" We acc
h dentally turned to the commercial news Of Il
r. day (Oct. 10Y aud read that on that day in ii
5 Chicago market buyers paid SEC Tor No.
af Spring wheat, and 79c for No. g Runnin
h down the tclegraphic news until we came
j. oswego, We read, "sales 5000 bu Canada
d at 7sc ahoat, and {, 500 bu do Mt 7se 10 arrive
J. NO. ! white winter in the Chicago mark
n sl.0s; same Canadian in oswego mark
of sl.15'
r. But Illinois yields 'tstump tai, while Ca1
!; ada yields the Finest samples"
;;ee This great fact wo wish to commend to OF
le Canadian neighbors, that however. 'scantJ
y the crops Of this region, there is always IA
il surplus for expectation. Illinois, each yea
= after feeding her otcn people discharges ah'ouz
= one outlet alone surpla. d scedt greater te
Z the ,ahoae product Of gppa" Canada. This ms
appear to be startling fact, but neverthele
Of it is true. It is now just twenty years sim
$ the first cargo Of wheat wss shipped fro
- Chicago; to-day she is the great prima]
Of wheat market Of the world.
y, In 1852 the wheat product Of Upper Ca
De ada, in bushels, was Il, $50.
ue In 1858, the receipts Of wheat at Chical
Of were Il, ,e45s7s. And On the 18th Of Nove'
i, Der, 1859, they had reached 1o,59l,2
.: bushels.
a Nov, when it is considered that there q
4" more than q dozen other outlets, among viii
es arc St. Louis and New Orleans, which abstrs
m largcly from the products Of Illinois, and ri,
'a% wn estimate the amount necessary Tor t