Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-08-24

vent, is no longer pauper. There is corr
in Egypt" and promise Of more. There wal
an unprecedented breadth Of grain sown
throughout the West this year, and the aver
age yield is immense. Young States which
have hitherto barely or but little more than
made their own bread, are counting up their
Millions Of bushels of Wheat just harvested
and their Tens of Millions of bushels of Corn
that will be ripened next month. 1t is quite
possible that some Of these estimates are ex.
travagant; but there can be no doubt that
throughout the States North West of the
Ohio, the Harvest Of 1850 win be ~ least fifty
per cent. heavier than any one preceding It
and that the region will have an aggregate
surplus Of One Hundred Millions Of Dollars
in value beyond that of any former year.
Into a discussion of the results of this plen.
ty we do not propose now to enter. Suffice
it that we sincerely trust that the farmers Of
the North West will obtain liberal reward
for their labor. And there are many circum.
stances that favor such result. The South
and South West, from Texas so far North.
ward as Kansas and Kentucky, have suffered
materially from drouth, especially in their
crops Of Grain. They must buy largely Of
Corn and Pork, possibly of Flour and Beef
also. Then the British Wheat harvest il
quite late, and not yet secured, SO that it may
prove deficient, as that of France threatened
to be month or six weeks ago. There will
doubtless be considerable Foreign demand
for Flour and Meat, though not naturally
the North West. But there are portents of q
great war in Europe, which may break out at
any moment, and4s likely to involve most Of
Al s. A. A6~A
war commence this Autumn-and no one cai,
say that, with Bonaparte welding despotic
sway in France, it may not be within month
Ia general advance in the prices Of Food is
almost inevitable. While, then, we would
advise no man to hold on to his grain at the
expense Of his creditors. we think those who
are perfectly able to hold Wheat At the West
may as well keep their property in this shape
as in any other. They take risk by hold
ing, but the chances seem to US in favor Of
that policy. If Peace holds, prices must rule
quite low but if War comes, they must ad.
vance. Everyone must judge and act for
himself
What we would most earnestly press on the
attention Of the West, and especially Of its
farmers, is this: Grain crops are precarious
at best, and the abundance of this year may
be followed by two or three years Of defcien.
CIV and failure. To send such bulky staples
to distant markets is, in the long run, ruinous
alike to the land and its cultivators-to the
soil, because it is steadily exhausted of vital
elements which are not replaced to the Gull
tivator, because it subtracts from the fair re-
ward of his industry the enormous cost Of
transporting his products to their ultimate
markets. Ten Millions worth of Wheat, for
instance, will subtract more value from the
soil of Western State than One Hundred
Millions worth of Wool would and it will
cost more to transfer the Ten Millions worth
to seaboard or European market than the
Hundred Millions worth. The average Wis
consin or Iowa farmer who grows grain as
his chief crop must sell it for less than one
half-often less than one-third-the price Of
Just such grain realized by the grower in
Connecticut or Great Britain; while his yield
of Wool, no matter how large, would com.
mand at his barn within ten per cent. Of its
; highest price in the best market in the world
These facts illustrate law, and one which
the West cannot too clearly comprehend
The permanent well-being Of that bounteous
magnificent region demands the creation Of
markets for the great bulk of its Food upon
or near its own soil. Foreign wars or dearth
in other sections may operate IS palliatives
but the abiding relief of the West is to be Sc.
cured through Protective Tariff and the ex-
tension and diversifcation of Home Manufac.
lures, not confined to the East, but diffused
through and constantly multiplying in the
West also. Such seems to us the important
lesson of the day.-Nec York Tribune,