Connecticut western news., 1872-10-11
:" Gornering Farm Products.

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 time .when~a speculator' could approxi- mate with some accuracy to the exact ia1aount of wheat, corn, or pork which could be thrown upon the market, but that does not exist now The area Of cultivated land is. So. much greater and the crops So much more varied that no such estimate. can now be, made. The Western people have. learned a. lesson from the experience of the. past and
 they now SO vary the good crops of their farms that most of them areHno longer, dependent upontie one grain, corn, or wheat. There is point of price beyond which the farmer thinks 1t good
 economy to eat some other food and sell this or that article. There is apoint in price beyond which the farmers knows it is useless for him to, hold his product. Then the multiplication of railroads en-. ables, the farmers rapidly to concentrate their saIable articles at any ono point where the price may be highest. The great Wheat corner of Chicago was an instancs>ef these facts.'" Never, before was a. speculation gotten up .withlso little foresight The earth may be. said to have groaned with the burden of grain and fruits she was bringing forth, and the very men engaged in this wild op- eration are among those who boast that more than one-fifth of the railroads of the United States center at Chicago. It may: truly be said that from the four quarters of the earth the golden grain came, pouring into that city as the price per. bushel touched $1. 55 for wheat was eyed shipped back from Buffalo. and the vast resources of the railroads &be- came wonderfully apparent It is stated as ansinstanoe of this that one of these great lines brought to the city in one day 1,600 carloads of grain. It would seem that with such experience and such resources plainly evident. the Chicago operators would be slow to enter thefield of speculation; in. any agricultural pro- duct, but we have from. there the intelli- gence that they are now engaged in, the effort to corner pork. ...,.. .
 The prospective success of this new corner'is based upon the fact that Chi cago demands mess pork to be of a cer- tain standard ;. that there are now only about 124,O00 barrels in the city, and that all in Cincinnati is controlled by three firms, and that these two stocks are the large proportion of what is ill this country. The true standard for judging the prospects of the success If any corner issthe certainty of demand. In this light the present Chicago corner is even more lilly planned than the one so lately collapsed. The corn crop through out the whole country is very large, and in most sections the wild mast is excel
 lent. The patato bug has been, com. pared with last year, almost harmless to that great food crop; the production oi molasses from various sources has in- creased i; the time of the year wher work ceases is at hand, and the number of hogs in the country has increased over 2,00O in the last year. There is no othe, so cheap mode of transporting busheI of corn to market as when condensed into fat of hogs sides, hence with abundant corn it can readily be seen that the farmers of the West will rapidly turr their corn into hog flesh, and ill view oi cheap corn and higL priced pork vii
 spare from their farm stock few more than originally intended for this purpose | This will make plethora of pork sup
 ply :; but it may be contended that il
 will not be put up at Chicago standard
 or rather that the rulers of the clique
 will contend flat it is not of prime qual
 ity. On this point, firstly, St. Louis vii
 buy if Chicago does not, and thence the I American market will be supplied
 Again, buyers may choose to make { standard of their own and not take as { finality the dictum of the Chicago clique
 In any event we can see for this new combination no better fate than that me
 by the attempted monoplizers of wheat
 and possibly in it's culmination an injur,
 to the commercial interests of Chicago
 and the transferlnent of some of he
 trade to her rival on the Mississippi
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