The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-04

IN a hot sun. 1t is not generally
known that when the tame grasses
can be made to yield in hot climates
the quality of nutrition is much
higher than in cold climates. Root
crops and peas and beans,
also, are below the average. In
England barley has become al
most second in importance to wheat,
ton of beer. We have it from what
should be considered good authority
that laborer requires daily gallon
of beer, and sometimes two gallons;
and even more is mentioned. Nor is
this confined wholly to laborers; for
all classes drink it. In 1866, beside
the large amount of barley raised in
England, over 100000 bushels
seem to have been, imported, and
over Al, 100000 bushels were matted.
Thus this large amount of grain is
wasted by people having one in six
as pauper; and yet they ransack the
world for breadsthffs. No fact is bet
ter established than it has been in
America that the hardest and most
efficient laborers are temperance men.
This enormous beer drinking of the
English is comparately of recent
growth, and one who knows little of
such habit can but think that in
the end the tendency must be disas-
trous to the mental and physical
powers of the people. In America
this could not be otherwise.
The harvestsi of France are also be-
low an average It is said that the
great expectations raised by the Ex-
positlon-that money would, as a
consequence, flow into France like
water-had an effect in relaxing the
energies of the people. In addition
to the home demand, France is oblig-
ed to furnish her colony of Algeria
with grain, though hitherto it has
produced surplus. lis to be noted
that, the cultivation of the potato
of Africa, good crops have been
perience with the potato in warm eli
mates, that it must be exceptional, for
neither in Georgia, Greece, India, nor
Hindoostau does the potato pay for
cultivation, while the quality is poor.
For several years the price of butter
has advanced so much that large
breadths of land have been devoted
to grass, and fthe profit on a COW is
stated to be 800 which is thought
wonderful. 1t would not be low
estimate to say that theyaverage pro-
duction in any we'll managed dairy in
New York, Ohio, or Illinois will |
average $50 to a COW.
6 In the markets of Danzig and |
Hamburg, the outlets Of Central |
Europe, the supplies offered are light, |
and there are still further advances |
In price. In Italy, the yield Of grain |
and olives, notwithstanding some mil
dew, will compensate for the def. |
of 1866. Around Venice
the yield of Indian corn, as we'll as
other grain, is fully an average.
From Riga and WiborG in Russia,
wheat, hay, tobacco and barley, are
in excess of the wants Of the people.
and shipments to Europe have com
menced. Over four hundred vessels,
loaded mostly with grain, were re
ported as on their way out of the
Mediterranean. In Hungary the
yield has been very large, but ship
ments have been so heavy that prices
have advanced above the views of
buyers. At Guttenburg, Sweden,
there was much wet weather from the
commencement of the grain market
to the last of September, and the
yield, except Of clover and hay, does
not seem to be large, though it NAV
be considered such for the climate: /
potatoes have done badly ~ ~ =
The English Consular dispatches
from the region of Koordistan. which
is in the Eastern part of Turkey, on
the upper waters of the Tigris, and
Persia, having water com
munication by RATS to .Monsal and
Bagdad, state that the crops are
equally line with last year 5, and that
the prices are only nominal Much
1t' this region is similar to our West
srn pralrles. and the bottoms are sub ;
ect to overflow like the bottoms of
he Ohio and Mississippi. This is a.
part OF the old Assyrian Empire, and
vas once under the. dominion of the
Kings of Nineveh and Babylon.
Some danger was apprehended from
lhe locpsts1whieh came. foihSArabia,
md the Turkish Government was do
ng what it could by having the fields
prinkled with drops of water. from
he Holy Mosque of Iconium, but
With what result we are not informed.
/ is long voyage thence by the Per
ian Gulf to England, butt is, custo
nary with her merchantst to take grain
D exchange for jack knives and col
red tiannels In whatever part of the
World these articles are in demand.
In Australia the yield of wheat is
arge, and the various districts com
Iain that they have no home market.
22hey will undoubtedly ship much to
England; but they keenly feel the
Want Of a manufacturing oeonIe to