Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-11-03
Total.
94,000,000

stutfs statistics, make the crop as high as
100000 600 bushels. This is positively too
large an estimate, as we can show by the fol.
lowing comparative figures. Our usual sur.
plus is less than $4,000 bushels; we consume
and use for food the balance of the crops
There can be no mistake about this 1t
takes, by general calculation at the East,
fourteen and a. half bushels to each inhabi.
tant Although this is too high for many
States particularly where corn and rye are
largely in use still wo will adopt the figures
for our estimates. Our estimate would be
for the crop of lSG0
Consumption, 135.O00,000
For soil und work, 36,000,000
Surplus, 100000
Add to our surplus of 5000, 600 bushels
$4,000 600 from Canada, and the real surplus
20 be shipped abroad from the crop of 1850
will be 29,000,000 bushels, or more than
double the usual quantity.
THE YIELD PER ACRE.
The yield of wheat in the States has ranged
from five to sixteen bushels per acre. New
York in early times produced as high as
twenty bushels. The country round about
Albany only produced thirty bushels Of wheat
to the acre; it now barely yields an average
of six bushels to the acre. Ohio, once the
great wheat State Of the Union, produced in
one year 24,000,00 bushels, and sixteen
bushels TO the acre, has gradually fallen off
till now the average is only seven bushels to
the acre, and her crop not more than l6 000.-
900 to lS000000 In England the yield per
acre has been raised from thirteen to thirty.
six bushels. Single fields have often pro-
duced forty five to sixty bushels. The largest
we remember to have been recorded was
eighty eight bushels for one acre. The depths
of the ocean, the islands of the sea, and the
battle.fields of the world, have been ransacked
for their deposits of phosphates, ammonia
and other rich producing properties, in order
to arrive at this wonderful productveness.-
In Wisconsin and Illinois the crop in 1850
is the most remarkable ever harvested. Seve.
raj other States have unusually large crops.
| In Wisconsin the yield has never before
averaged more than twenty bushels to the
acre. 1t now averages twenty.eight bushels
| to the acre. Instances are constantly quoted
| in the local press of the State, where farms
have averaged forty to fifty bushels. One
gentleman in Walworth county harvested
seventy t,co bushels from one acre. In Illinois
the average yield of the State this year is
probably twenty bushels. The entire grain
crop of Illinois for 1850 will be about 100
bushels to each inhabitant Perhaps no ter.
!
much. In wheat alone, the yield in Wiscon-
sin for 1860 is over 81 bushels for every
iuhabitant, and over 200 bushels for every
voter at the Presidential election. In Eng
land the production is five bushels per head !;
in Spain four bushels in Ohio, ten in New
York, five and half; in the United States
| (lS50) four and half in 1850, six bushels.
THE COST OF PRODUCTION.
| H., ;,;, ;rto
est on the land, in the Northwestern States
is about 50 per acre. This, with q yield of
! IS bushels, woald make the cost of the wheat
to the farmer, at barely a living price, 80
cents per bushel. With yield of 2S bushels,
| the cost would be reduced to about 3j cents
per bushel. The price Of wheat at the far.
| mer's market in the Northwest will not ave-
rage as low as 80 cents. The crop of 1860
has thus far yielded the farmer at his door 30
cents per bushel. No crop is more certain
or pleasanter of cultivation. -Four. tilths OF
the entire crop of the great States enumera
ted above is spring or summer wheat, and the
best of it is nearly equal to common red
winter. The Gambler Iowa" and Milwaukee
club" have worldwide regulations
THE EXTENT OF THE TRADE.
The extent of the wheat trade of Chicago
and Milwaukee at this time is marvellous
! The historical Importance OF Dantzlc, Ham
burg and Odessa dwindle into colonial insig.
nfcance, compared with these new wheat
emporiums of the Northwest The grain
commerce of Lake Michigan is greater than
that of the Atlantic ocean. Chicago aud
M Miwaukie receive and ship more wheat than
any four cities on the globe. The receipts Of
loheat at these tteo cities, since hdrvest, have
been nearly ten millions Of bushels! The
receipts for any day the last week, at these
markets, would give one bushel to every
inhabitant of Vermont and the receipts Tor
the week would feed all Massachusetts for
six months.
1t is 10 figure of speech to say, that the
Northwest can feed the world"