Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-01-11
ICOMMUNICATED.

COMMUNICATED.
AGRICULTURE FARMS-CRoPS-
PRICES, &C.-The agricultural report for No
vember and December estimates the corn crop
at l, l00,0 100000 bushels. 1t is supposed to be
as large as the crop Of 1870. Very little failed
to riper and the quality is generally very fue.
The following States produced the percentage
of the crop of 1871 Rhode Island sc, Della
ware 90, Maryland 9S, Virginia %, Florida
81, Wisconsin, SO, and Minnesota 9S. The
other States ranged from Tennessee lO2 all the
way up to Texas 1884, Thus almost all the
States produced as much as in 1871 while
Texas produced one-third more. Iowa produces
the highest average, nearly II bushels per acre.
The tier of States immediate north Of Maryland
averages nearly 40. New England, with her
Massachusetts and Rhode Island to IS Is for
New Hampshire. Texas has the highest for the
Southern States, 2S!, Florida the lowest,
9 6-l0. Virginia l4!
The highest prices for corn prevailed 10 New
England, ranging from 81 to 90, 90, "a and
%, New York TO- Pennsylvania and New
Jersey 81, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and
North Carolina SO cts, South Carolina 96,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas SO, Florida 100, Texas 43, Tennes.
see As, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia
IS, Michigan Is, Indiana and Illinois 26!, Wis
consin and Minnesota 50, Iowa, Kansas and
Nebraska 10, Missouri 30, California 100, and
Oregon 90. Kansas, &c, average 80 bushels
at 10, producing per acre S74l, Virginia II!
at IS cts, IS Al money product in favor of
Virginia, 81 more than in those States; Mis-
souri, 81 bushels at 81, $Il.S4, being So
moro than in Virginia.
WHEAT Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska aver
age Is bushels at prices ranging from IS, IS,
to l42, the last 10 Kansas. The price Of wheat
in Missouri is $l.4l, due to the local failure of
crops. Virginia averages bushels at $l.5G,
Missouri 10 bushels, at III, showing in favor
OF Missouri 90 cts on a short crop.
In New England the product is | I per acre.
and price $l.S4; showing two things: lst In.
creased product from small .turms and ID,
increased price from persons engaged IN manu-
factures; the product being nearly double, and
the price 80 per ct. more, equal to s3l2S to
our Sl404. Therefore. divide your farms and
taru them better, and encourage manufactures
aud internal improvements Of all sorts; brig
your farms up to the standard of the gardens of
New England, which can only be done by
degrees, acquiring denser population.
But some one will say TOBACCO IS OUR
STAPLE. Massachusetts produces l,750, Con
nccticut $50, New York l.033, Pennsylvania
800, the two first uamod averaging LOO
pounds per acre at 81 cts, equal to So. 10 per
acre. Virginia averages $50 pounds at lot Cts.
per pound making 81. 81 per acre. THEREFORE,
again divide your farms, increase their produc.
| tive value, open, create your market for cdlbles
and chewabes by encouraging manufactures
and doubling your population. The only way
you can do this is by RESTORING the credit of
the State, which is worse in the importing
cities than that Of any other State In Balti.
more they poke homestead exemption note
at the Virginia merchants unless they are
known to be men of means and financial ability
Let the work begin at Jerusalem; let the Legis-
laturc open their eyes to the dangerous fact
that Virginia credit is gone; let them restore it
by letting the creditor have as full swing at his
debtor as the present Constitution will give
him. let them make land less sacred; let the
Sheriff sell it; let the mortgager sell it if the
mortgage gives the power of sale; let them
abolish the cash feature in trust deeds and sell
on shor, but fair credits let them tax it until its
owners see and feel aud know that their large
wastes are Improbable, and until they are
compelled to give it away for fair cousdera-
ton; do away with injuuctions and all other
dila,ory schemes
This is written by man whose agent made
Il verbal contract to sell his land for price
which would have paid all his debts, when he
had full authority, aud was, moreover, fully
authorized again by letter to make deeds, and
who, after two years, bought the land for the
debt due on it, leaving his principal to fight it
out as best he could. Having been a Coufcdc-
rate soldier, aud having lived on their ralioDs,
he has tried the same in time of peace, and has
saved more than 800 per anuum over the low
est board in his town and has. by life usur-
aDcc provided for all his creditors and paid
soule Of them $500 in year. and with health
and strength vouchsated him, means to pay
them all some day. Let the Legislature tax
fees Of office, salaries, ct id omne genus, and
pay the States debt, and thus give assistance
to business credit. ALIQUlS.
Henri Rocheforts return to prison has been
delayed b. an opinion from his physicians that
journey ththcr in his present condition would
be dangerous.