Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-15
LARGE EXPORTS AND
THEIR EFFECT.

AS already stated, our exports from
this port continue to give gratifying in
crease, showing for the seven months,
from Jan. | to Aug. |, 1873, an excess
of about S22,OOO,OOO over the CORES
ponding period last year, while the i'm
ports show healthy decrease of over
s25,OO0.O00 for the same period of time.
The month of August shows similar con-
dition of things, and it is believed thatit is
likely to prove permanent. Our wheat
crop has been harvested IN fine condition,
while cord does not give nearly as large
a crop as usual-the latest estimates
from Illinois and Iowa being two-thirds
of last years yield. But against this
we must set off the fact that there is
large remnant of last years crop which
is now likely to get market at satisfac
tory prices. Never before was so much
butter and cheese raised in this country.
and the appliances for packing and send
ing the former to market have already
increased its price to the farmer. The
quality of the butter is also constantly
growing better, producers. at last, un-
Outstanding the fact that there is market
at good rates for all prime butter that
can be raised. Cheese still continues
to improve in quality, and the foreign
demand for both these products is con-
tinually growing some of the best
American cheeses are now hardly behind
those of famous English makes, and
Western farmers are now beginning to
understand that they can solve the vexed
freight question easier in this way than
in any other, since the charges on these
articles, in proportion to value, are far
lighter than on such bulky products as
corn, wheat, &c.
The supply of petroleum seems to be
literally inexhaustible it now runs
almost in rivers, and the price is SO
moderate that it must continue to tempt
expectation on continually larger scale.
1t was hardly more than a dozen years
ago when the first cargo of this valuable
product was sent abroad, with fear and
trembling lest it should not find mar
ket, and now Philadelphia does an i'm
mense trade in it, while New-York Gf
we mistake not ships still larger
quantity. Cotton, it is now thought.
will yield at least as large crop as last
year; the wool clip is being fast mark
eted at good prices, and this, in its turn,
has acted upon wooden goods, width have
been considerably depressed because the
staple had been purchased at fancy prices
and because more wooden factories had
sprung up during and just after the re-
bellion than were needed.
We have said that we did not think
that our exports were likely to fall off
soon, and the reason is that the demand
for bread stuffs, &C. will probably con-
tinue brisk The very latest accounts
from Europe show that France will have
a smaller yield of cereals than was ex-
pected, and will export nothing. Hun
gary and Russia will not yield their ex-
pected surplus, and the stock in the
latter country has run down considera-
, bly,. Germany, alone, will have her
usual yield therefore England must
] depend mainly upon the United States
: to supply her large deficiency
: This consideration it is that has been
) manly instrumental in stiffening the
! price of freights to such an extent as to
give renewed life and activity to ship
= building, which has not been in SO pros
: porous a condition in years as 1T is to-
4 day We can appreciate this revival
E when we consider that thousands Of tons
t Of American shipping have been trans
tferled TO foreign flags. and that the