The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-23
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Surely it is well we, should know, yet
there is great want OF correct information.
Many suppose that England uses up most
that is exported, and many farmer thinks
the greater part or what is sent from his
farm goes TO some foreign country. The
following fscts-plain and simple, and
from official sources-show how it really
isI When the British corn laws were re-
pealed, the inducement was held out by the
English, and the hope entertained by cur
grain growers, that large market would
open there for our products.
But, in twelve years after the repeal of
the corn laws, from 1s41 to 1850, our ex.
ports Of breadstufs to England had de-
creased, in proportion to our population,
almost thirty per cent. even by EngIish
estimate q per cent.
During the ssnae years the British inn
ports of grain from this country were only
one-ffth their imports from other eouR-
tries.
Take our exports of provisions ana
breadstuffs to Crest Britain, and 70 sll the
Western Hemisphere, from 1876 to 1860,
and we find our yearly exports to Great
Britain the least, and the demand this side
the Atlantic much larger the last part of
| time.
The average of three years exports Of
provisions, closing with 1850 was, to Great
| Britsin IS, ,492, ,268, and on this side the
ocean So, ,9l7,s3
Hour exports of breadstuf5 TO Great
Britain for each of these same three years,
averaged 7,542eOl bushsls, but to ports of
our Western Hemisphere 1904, $50 BUSH
els.
! CAissga aloua often senfh1fRf IsiiFeyTknd
has taken from US each year, on the sVerge,
for twenty years past, and the grain ex-
port from that city in single day, often
exec eds what England has brought of US
in any whole year
In 1860, the total products Of cur soil
were $l,S6O, 100000 IL value; our total
exportsof those products 1912 2S2, s71, OF
but one.seventh. Taking out the cotton
exnorss and our home market and con.
sumption was twenty times IS great as ouI
| exports to all foreign lands.
: We may safely estimate, to-day, tbt
, New England market IS worth, to tht
3 western grain grower, more than that o
J, England.
Z Our exports Of bresdstuffs to Great Brit
J ain from 1886 to 1860 averaged 9,3O2, IA.
bushels yearly the highest in l84T-th'
2 famine yesr in Irelsnd-36, ,494, ga bush
els; the lowest, 1, ,4O2 bushels in 1857, sn'
t 80 varying from 2, 766, 059 bushels, In 1885
/ to 28, ,I62, 7O5 bushels, in 1854.
II Our sversge exports Of breadstuffi
It Great Britain in five years, from 1855
" 1858, were less than dollar per head {
le our population each year.
Thus We see the English demand
ie smaller than that Of our own hemispher
" both are less than many suppose, and Il
10 home market is much larger than is gene
z ally supposed.
D. Would it not be well to pay more sttel
n tion to this home market, to be built up
lie the increase and prosperity Of home man
be facture2
Let every farmer remember one imPc
n tant fact. The decrease of our hor
tn market makes Us more dependent on {
let chspges-often severe and ruinous-
he distsnt foreign markets, and these chang
ses affect and govern now, the prices he
ou Let wheat. in Liverpool fall sixpenee
the bushel and the Wisconsin farmer fe
1k. it in three weeks. The lesson is pls
,ed Foster cur home industry, let manuf
de. lures, West and Esst, grow and thri
an Let our larger market within ourselves
I'VE our first consideration, and then 81
ear abroad such surplus IS we shall dOubt
have, and other countries may need.