New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-14


doubt that, throughout the States Northwest OF
the Ohio, the Harvest Of 1860 will BIO at least h'ty
per cent. heavier than any one preceding IT, ana
that this region will have an aggregate surplus Oh
One Hundred Millions of Dollars in value beyond
that Of any former year.
Into discussion of the results OF this pie1W
". do mot nropose now to enter Suffice 1t Uat
we sincerely trust that the farmers Oh 'ne No''"'
West will obtain a liberal reward ior 'neh i''o,
And there are many circumstances that FAVOR sucn
q rasult The South and South West, from leAaS
.. Ca Nortbward as Kansas and Kentucky, have
suersd materially from drouth, especially IN their
crops of Grain. They must buy largely OF Corn ana
Pork. possibly of Flour and Beef also. Thenthe brt
b eatharyestis quite late and not yet secured
40 that it may prove deficient, as that OF france
threatened to be a month or six weeks ago. Ihere
will doubtless be considerable Foreign demand
or Flour and Meat, though not naturally eaough
absorb the magnificent surplus OF the North
West. But there are portents OF great war III
Europe, which may break out at any moment. and
il likely TO involve most of the Continent in its hor
rors. Should that war commence this Autumn
art no one can say that, with Bonaparte WELD
ing despotic swsy in France, it may not within
month"; general advance in the prices OF Food Is
almost inevitable. While, then, we would ADVISE
no mar to hold on to his grain at the expense OF
his creditors, we think those wig are perfectly
able to lold Wheat at the West may as well keep
their property in this shape as in any other. They
take risk by holding but the chances seem 70 us
in favor of that policy If Peace holds, prices
must rule quite low; but if War comes, they must
ad ance. Every one must Judge and act for him.
self.
What we would most earnestly press on the
attention of the West, and especially of its farmers,
is this Grain crops precarious at best, aud the
abundance of this year may be followed by two or
three wears of deficiency and failure. To send
such bulky staples to distant markets Is, 10 the
long IuD, ruuous alike to the land and its culiva-
tors-to the foi because it is steadily exhausted
of vital elements which are not replaced; to the
cul;iyator. because it subtracts from the fair re-
ward of his industry the enormous cost OF trans
porting 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 sesboard or European market
than the Hundred Millions worth. The average
Wisconsin or Iowa farmer who grows grain
as bis chief crop must sell 1T 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.
maid at his barn within ten per cent. of its highest
price in the best market in the world These facts
illustrate q law, and che which the West cannot
too clearly comprehend. The permanent we'll
being of that bounteous magnificent region de-
mands 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 as
palliatiyes but the abiding relief of the West is to
be secured through Protective Tariff and the
extension and Investigation of Home Manufac-
lures, not confined to the East, but diffused
through and constantly multiplying in the West
also. Such see ms to us the important lesson OF
the day.