Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-08-23
From the Rural Register Of the 10Th of August
THE CROPS

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fabulous accounts are given Of the amount which
Is t" be thrown upon the market of this great
staple. To show to what an extent of exaggcra-
ton tits is carried, one paper says that sthe
Illinois Central Railroad is furnished with seven
teen miles of cars with the usual proportion of
freight cars but the grain crops of the State are
so enormous the road is incapable of doing all
the transportation required Of it, The great
facilities Of railroad communication with the
West, would in this hot month of August
whilst the weather has been so propitious for
the ln-gatherng and thrashing of the wheat
have kept our seaboard markets largely sup
plled-but the very journals which contain these
marvellous accounts from the great granary of
the West, show that the statements they publish
are not re1iable-the Corn Exchange proves that
they are not.
In Philadelphia, on the 9th, we are told that
on change, "holders of -four are rather frmer
in their views to-day, and the market is more
active. Fresh ground superfne is scarce at
$3.50. Old stock ranges at $5.129a$5. 25.-l
Sales include about 5000 bbls Western extra
mostly at $5.629. In wheat, the movement is
small, owing to the frmness of holders, who are
asking an advance. Corn is scarce and firm"
On the next day, we learn that 'four is higher
wheat is firm but active, and closed with an adj
vanclng tendency-corn is scarce and wanted.
In NeW York, same date, it is reported that |
'Flour is higher, and wheat is active with an
advancing tendency-corni is scarce and wanted.
In Baltimore, same date, we are told that ''the |
offerings of grain at the Corn Exchange to-day
were small, and added up g. 900 bushels
Wheat continues in active demand, and prices
were steady, but there was great lack of prime
and choice samples, which were mostly wanted |
Corn was in active request, and the market was
very firm"
Now our readers well know, that in August
and September there is always great rush of
grain into the market, and consequently buyers |
have always the advantage, by decrease in
price-yet with all the puffs about the immense
crops ready to be rushed into market by the
'17 miles Of cars" ION one road alone, bear in
mind, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
an equipaee equal to any other) flour and grain
are actually scarce and in demand, and advanc-
ing in price, in August i! We are also told
that the returns of the census-takers to the gov
eminent, show the immense results of the late
harvest yet there have been but few complete
returns from any of the United States-and
moreover, everybody knows that the census
as they could we'll get through with, and tew
more than they could have satisfactorily answer
ed, without voluntarily adding to the number
by asking and recording answers to questions
with which they have nothing to do-for it must
be remembered that SO far as the crops are con-
cerned, they are required to obtain the amount
OF the same UP TO THE 1sT OF JUNE, at which
time, we reckon, they will have found but few
fields of wheat cut, and still less threshed out
to say nothing of corn and oats, and hay and
potatoes.
Now what are the facts in the case? The
wheat crop in all the Southern States, south Of
Virginia, has been almost an entire failure, and
the corn crop ditto. In Virginia, Maryland and
Delaware, at the outside there will not be more
than two-thirds crop of wheat, and not a half
a crop of corn. In Pennsylvania, the wheat
crop has been unusually fine; in New York, the
same may be admitted-but it will be borne in
mind that for several years, in the latter State,
they have ceased to raise wheat in consequence
of the rayages of the nudge: but this year mora
was sown than usual, and it has turned out well,
but the crop is not large enough to supply the
home demand. The other States, east of New
York, grow but little wheat, and depend for
supplies from the South or West. In the West,
the winter wheat was very materially injured
by the unfavorable spring weather, as is always
the case-but a large breadth Of spring wheat
was sown: and we have reason to believe that it
has turned out decidedly better than has been |
the case for several years past-but this wheat
is always inferior in quality to the winter varie-
ties, and generally cannot compete with them.
So that even with the largest crop that can pos
sibly be relied on at the West, there will not be
a suficiency in that section to supply the great
deficiency at the South. 10 what extent the
drought has affected the corn crop in the West,
as also in Pennsylvania and New York, we are
not just yet prepared todetermine +; but the pro-
liabilities are. that it cannot be a full average
one, and consequently it will be necessary to fall
back upon their wheat to supply any deficiency
from this cause.
The crops of Europe will certainly not be
average ones, and deficiency is to be supplied.
The amount of this deficiency may be estimated
from the fact that the importation of wheat and
flour into England from all countries, is in guam
tity equal to 6,541 ,254 barrels of -four in 1859,
while in the same period of nine months the
previous year it amounted to 1882, All barrels.
Of this large quantity, 1881 All barrels were
furnished mostly by Russia and France, while
the United States furnished but about $4,000
barrels, and in 1859 hardly 10000 were import
ed from the United States. The wheat supplied
by France to England during last year was more
than one-third of the whole amount bought, and
of flour nearly 80 per cent of the whole quantl-
ty imported
Now the harvest in France and the Baltic will
not be sufficient to spare much to England, for
the ensuing year, and she will be obliged to look
elsewhere for her food-and where but from the
United States can the demand be expected? In
our last, we showed signs of activity in freights
for breadstuffs, in our Atlantic ports, for Europe
and the evidences are accumulating daily, that
this demand is increasing. The shipping mer-
chant is ever on the alert, and is as far-seeing
as the eagle in search of his prey. The Boston
Post of late date, after alludng to the increas-
ed value of ships within the last sixty days,
adds "Grain freights are nearly as high as
they were in the Canine" year, and this advance
is telling upon everything else very rapidly. 1t
is supposed that by October or November the
cotton. ships will make more money than they
have done for years-at all events ship owners
are firm in their views, and are sanguine that
their time is coming. With grain at 20 to rs
cents and cotton at penny, they will make
money fast enough, and fortunate will he be
who has ships at the right time and in the right
place.
These facts we present to the consideration of
the readers of the Rara1 Register for their guild