The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-09-08
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Corn CRoP OF 1904 WORD TO FARMERs.-s
IL farmers know how to "cr0ak, or repine over
bad prospects, it must be admitted that they also
know how to rejoice at bright prospect. For
two months, there has been an incessant exulta
ton over the present state Of the growing corn
crop. In Ohio. Indiana, apd the northern part
Of Illinois, There = habpily abandddt reason for
il. But 'there b 6ne Important TACT even,in re-
been entirely overlooked, and that is, that the
crop upon an the bottom landSis no .6ettet thanit
was last year. Upon tie HplapAs onlyfs it bet.
Ger; and on such landA tho cfJp IS certainly as
good as ever known. But there is only the usual
crop upon the great corn gardens Of the West.
naiAel}, yhe b6tton,s Of The Musk jngnp, }he Sci.
oto, ths niamis, the Wabash, &c. Farmers who
DO not look beyond their own farms and those Of
their neighbors, wonder what can lie done With
% much corn Let them look q little further
and they win see. II they will give themselves
the trouble they can learn from from indisputable
facts that there % general failure 10 oil the fol-
sissppi, Louisiana, Georgia, South and North
Carolina, in the east half Of Virginia, the south
ern part Of Missouri. An enormous quantity Of
corn must be sent into the above States, TO cup.
ply the wants produced by the shortest crops
perhaps ever known in that region Of country.
White people eat com bread more sen.-.m, :, IN
the South the. a.. zoe North whilst the negroes
are fed on il exclusively. An Immense aphpunt
must also be consumed by thS hsui&s and hoyses
which, yath-ihs Negroes, make the cotton crop
OF the South, X ~ ss
The remaining Middle and Northern States
have Rever produced large excess Of corn be-
yond their own local wants. and will this year, 90
lar a. heard from, produce barely enough for
home consumption. This may be said Of Mary
land, Western Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsyl vania,
New York, aud the New England StateA
/ II reflective farmers would study these and
other facts, which might be mentioned Il the
limits Of this paper permitted they would be JUS
last two months they have been sacrificing their
old corn, by ceiling at about onehalfits true val.
ne: and will also come to the wise coBclusiOn not
TO give away their present growing crop q 70 70
IS cents In the field, a. some have thought Of
doing. Ny view Of the matter u this, (and they
can sdopt -or reject 20 they sse st. that whilst
the crop Of 1860 is, and will be, unless frost
cosnes too early, very large in the Northwest
(Ohio, Indiana and Northern Illinnis,) yet when
We view the whole Of our country east Of the
Rocky Mountains. the crop win be the kghfsst
ever known before. And it would mot be a matter
Of surprise il our farmers were TO obtaia nexi
spring the highest price they have ever had ior
their corn.
/ hays written these lines for ~ hsnsat Il ~
farmers Interest, because few or none have e
vord % say IN his bshalf While purchasers cap
depecse ard control To market " concert Of II,
tercst, by combinations, conventions, &c., the
krmer his but one safegaasd, ard that y biz In.
1encndences II ~ can6oe obesln Gair seAuncr.
ativc rrice for the product Of bis labor, be need
not sHcsiAes bis grain, when he can 6ad hcgs q