, 1865-11-21
English Views OF the Great Lakes nnd
Illinois Farms,

' LONDON, Nov. 2, 1865
Five years ago, American news filled an
out-of.thc-way corner Of the inside pages OF
English newspapers; but now-a-days, our
journals teem With intelligence from the
Western shores Of the Atlantic. We arc, 80
to speak, opening up a terra iacognua, and
the United States farnishs us with incompara-
bly, more items than European countries Ill
together. 1t would seem rs though the vast
proportions ofyonr late war had taught the
salutary lesson that a nation capable Of such
exertions and sacrifices must possess resources
unknown to others and 1t Is, at au events,
certain that the different organs Of our press
are initiating each other in laying before their
readers Information, both interesting and in
structive in re Unclo Sam. Eent you m ex-
tract last week from our Honey Nar&a Re-
mouthpiece Of our ngriculturists, the Mark
Lane EIpreaa, sails In its wake with the fol-
loWing lesson In geography, &c, ancnt your
great lakes:
..lbe eomncrce Of The Lakes amounts At present. to
al least ~ Give hundred millions OF doafs aupuaE
~ End ncraseH 20 rapidly ihat all estimates Of lts
proelcclivc vulue have hitherto fallen short OF Tho
nu;h. It employs about two thousand vessels and
fwtutJ thousand sailors. beside four great lines OF
railroad. 1t sends tc the fcaboard one hundred mi
Tons OF fh1shes Of c1ain, two millions OF nos- and
hsfa mtli!o9 of cattle composing The principal pm
that the wheat crop Of Neu York would hardly fed
heE people for one year. and that that OF New
England il sufficient for only about three weeks'
eonsu1nptonh md aAbrdtng a large eurrlus
for 1p0rtation. The cereal wealth Jeatly 6oat.
ca On ihese W1tes1 DOW exceeds one hundred mil
lions Of bushels. 1t Is difficult to preeen. distinct
idea Of 4 quantity so enoEMous. SudIce 1t to s,y
That the potion OF II (abont tno-thirds} MOVING to
market oa the Erie and Osuego caua1s requires a
Ee q hoats moEe than forty miles long to carry IT,
sells carrying twenty Thousand bushels each /.
loaded IN railroad cars of tho usual capscItF. 1t
would take Two hundred and fly thontapd Of
lEcm, or train more than one Thousand miles In
length. The four great lines from the lakes TO The
market. This g1ain trade Is a new fact IN The
history o. man. In quantity It already mach e1-
eerds The whole export cereals from the Russian
empire. the grcat comp.e. Of the United Statcs,
"bosc total export Of cereals wss in 1881 hut forty
nine millions Of bushels. being less than hall the
amount carried In 1854 upon the American lakes.
i Nns the constant aim OF ancient Romc crcn In
The zenith or her power to provision the capital aud
its adjacent Provinces from Lhe outlying portions Of
uas hitecn milIlons OF 6nshels, Under the prudent
ndmluitra Of the Emperor Sevesusu large store
Of corn Wzs accumulated and Kept on hand suGi-
cent to guard the empire from famine for eeren
year, The product ol 1860 In tns five Lake Sta.es
Of Ohio, Michigan. indiana, Illinois, aud Wiscon-
sin, was three hundred md nftylour millions Of
bukhelg-"
How ENGLAND CONTINUES TO GROW WHEAT.
We have need Of like information With the
same paper too, by such comparisons rs the
Our farmers csunot grow crop Of wheat ts1tr