The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-09-08
GRAIN AND PROVISION PROS

Poets.
All classes of people are directly in
terested in the grain and provision pros
poets, and serious apprehensions are felt
on account Of the almost national drouih
which has prevailed during the season.
The summer of 1881 will pass into his
tory celebrated as the one in which the
most extensive drouth prevailed that
has visited the United States in
the last half century. The accounts
from England, which is one Of our chief
customers for the products of our fields,
are also very gloomy. The grain and
vegetable product of both countries must
be materially shortened. and the effect
upon the provision markets will be seri-
ously felt For land owners and farmers
the outlook in England seems very dis
couraging. The London Times of August
26 devotes a leader to the subject, in
which it says: with each day there is
less hope of good harvest The wealth
er has turned against US at the critical
moment. The loss to the country from
the late rains is to be reckoned by mill
ions. It is impossible to gather in the
corn, and it will soon cease 10 be worth
gathering. The situation Of our farmers
is dismal. For many of them bad
harvest must mean absolute ruin. Farm.
ing Is a highly skilled enterprise, and II
the present race Of farmers succumb and
are driven out Of their business there
will be no others capable Of succeeding
them"
The London Mark Lane Express, the
leading authority in the grain trade, re-
viewin the market for the previous
week, says: This week has brought
general disaster and ruin to the harvest
The serious intermittent storms culmi.
mated on Thursday in general thunder
storm with q deluging rainfall. To ade
quately estimate the damage we mus
remember that the downpour of rain
was on sheages which had been repeat
edIy wet and dried, or on standing grain
which is literally eaten up by mildew
In the flooded districts the disaster is
complete"
In our own country the situation is moi
so bad, though so serious as &c
cause apprehension. The Cincin
natl Price Current evidently
puts the best face upon the CASE
as follows: "In some localities the corr
crop was thus ruined past recovery, but
in other regions it has greatly improved
Then again, it must not be forgotten
that there is yet large amount Of ole
corn in the west, at remote places, which
when prices ruled as low as they have
done the past two years, would not beal
transportation to market, but which
now that prices have advanced SO tina
they are so to 100 per cent. higher thar
they have been, and transportation ratel
are lower, will come forward. Thu
higher prices too will enforce
greater economy in the use Of
corn, so that what is apparently
short crop may prove, with the
old corn yet available, an ample supply
for home use. and some-tU export Il
| foreign countries"
AS to pork, the same paper says
1.-THE amount of pork produced does no
depend entirely upon the production o
corn. In the year 1875, the corn croI
amounted to 1891 ,OOO, 600 bushels, anC
the number of hogs packed in the ives
the succeeding winter was 1880, 1876
In 1878 the corn crop was 1888,
200, 900 bushels, and the number of hog
packed during the succeeding winte
season was 7.4S0, 64s, the largest numbe
on record. With an increase of only
per cent. in the corn crop, there was al
increase of over 80 per cent. in the pack
ing. The corn crops of 1879 and 1888
were still larger, but the number of hog
packed IN the winter season has falleI
off, although it has been more than mad
up by increased summer packing"