The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-07-08
NO. $40.
From the Toledo Commercial
BreaSlatuffa.

Under this head, in the United Stat.s We
include only wheat and maise; sbe Knglish
embrace wheat, barley and oats, and, usually,
exclude msige; though we think it 10 gradu-
ally working its way as an article of human
food. The British Islands, though under .
state Of high cultivation, fail to grow bread.
stuffs sufficient for their population of twenty
eight millions. The deficiency is in a course
of augmentation.
During the fiscal year 1861, there were i'm
ported into Groat Britain over seventy mil
lions bushels Of W eat, reducing -four to wheat,
al The usual rate. or other grains tho amount
was large, bringing the aggregate TO about
one hundred millions of bu hels.
During the year ending August 81, 1851,
New Yok exported 10 all parts of the world
2,72s,000 bbls. Of -four, 23,s60,000 bushels
Of wheat ard 9,269 900 bushels Of corn,
which would aggregate, in bushels, over 49,.
100000. Toledo sent Eastward over 49,.
JOO 600 bushels; and all the lake ports about
l00,00O,000, being a surplus ABOUT equal to
the deficiency Of Great Britain. The States
Of New England and New York, it would
sesrn from the figures, consume more of the
breads,ufso orut down from the lakes, than all
the world besides The excrescent popula.
tion Of these States and their commercial de.
pendencies, can scarcely number less than FIVE
millions. BY excrescent population We mean
the excess beyond the ability to feed from
their own lands. At FIVE millions, they would
be furnished with ten bushels each, E. bread
stuffs and for feeding stock, supposing their
imports to be fifty millions. The excrescpnt
population Of the three kingdoms is greater
than that of New England and New York;
probably, in the average years, reaching sew
en- millions. Some ten to twelve millions of
people. then, bordering the Atlantic ON both
sides, in high latiludes, depend on other, and
mo.tly distant, lands, for their food. Most of
this food is shipped from lake cities, in which
a large portion of this excrescent population
would be better placed for carrying on the va
rious branches of industry, by which they earn
the means of living than where they now re-
side. The same degree Of industry would, in
these cities, furnish them more liberal sap.
port. The fact is penetrating the min Is OF
small portion of this superhuous populat on,
The effect of this conviction has been to give
to these lake cities growth more rapid than
any others 10 the world. What If the ten or
twelve millions should awake to the knowl-
edge that their interests would be promoted
by making new homes near tho farms that
grow their ioodf
1t las occurred to me that books, pam.
phlets and newspapers should be written and
distributed with a special purpose to enlight-
en- the minds Of this surplus population on the
subject, and that in no way could these cities
spend few thousand dollars more proftably
than by having prepared and disseminated,
through our old States and 10 Weston Eu-
rope, such books, pamphlets ard papers. The
object and effect would be universally bene6-
cal in behalf of the people to whom this
knowledge would furnish the motive for seek
ing and finding better home for themselves
and their families. J. WIS.