The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-04-27
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vrlcuitur"i Products
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WtF 'pS .%;. ri,y, now Of Chicago, fo'
rn,'iy', 70. pli, nI,,ence e book showing the
,d...s, ~, toss,t prices for wheat, corn
Highest y ~ H. ~ Tor ,sclass fifteen years. in'
mi,p.'tt, .rst, YEA 1867 aud 1881. ,,,
dad'ssr; W.! ote, ,bisbook wcare remind
ln ,s' l,.'.5 .'s5rsiou. that We used to hear u
dol'ssi ~, in regard to a time near a.
!" ysl' ~ =, :, msca .'u1 would be raised
s,'a m d IIt' DE ground he improved o"1 IN me' ,hs
ss de-, a,., ,G'e,1s d sossT tins opened up to
'rt F. area and w settlement, that the 'armer's
nIl'oa''' .i,a IN" IssryI virtually gone for lack
'IsNFa',,L ".,I., .sl paying prices. Not yet
" iDn's ',,,, ~, sheu this country cult
sSeHN S',, i' I,spQVoo Of acres OF wheat
ya'si AZ 'y, ,btn tie crop had reached l7o,.
d,",, ,1", l,I % bs,ae!., and prices ranged from
y .@:,, y: ~ :l,o,.e were supposed to be e1-
:.rs,;soc;ps 's,v the talI effects Of the war
'arrto. farulc5, who in their d"y had
'''.' ~. rIs,, .e.l a, ior,y anu iilty cents,
,tsl .sl sIn ssips ,Atcshed with i Aai' ian
~ NJ, winters jioby md had heard th@
=" milIioo acres we're under cultiva-
IN, inv :, ,ha, time, regarded SIS and Sl.4o
:, w. ,one,hiar fabulous, especially when
"a ,b,. the acreage had more than
,Inrbrei, They attributed the price to the
vii, aud ais, the stimulated acreage to the
VII, anil expected when the war was over
,rI ,hiass had resumed their normal con.
di,ion tha, wheat would again drop down
!, D,jce and the cultivation OF it would
materially fall away. This they expected
because in the nature Of things so much
Y,,,diaew could no. be employed-such
improved pOws, drills, reapers and
binders, ,hreshers, c,c.,-without an over
prplacsioa and a consequent decline in
prizes
Well, the Years hayc come and gone, and
,he acreage Of whcut has gone on increas'
;up and increasing, until in 1881 We hid
Dye, 81 millions under cultivation, and the
price has often been above Il dollar in
'bIca,o and once or twice rs high lis s..
This too in the lace Of u steadily increasing
Ic,easc Of corn and all other agricultural
reductions. About 20 years ago it was in
rlbl, 10 read that We had 80 millions Of
cses in corn, but this acreage is now
IOablei, and corn is almost twice the price
aid for it when not half Us much was
ai:el.
TIE occupation Of the farmer has not
'een ruined by machinery. Far from it;
'ut his labors hive been greatly lessened
nd bis profits increased. Where has he
oGnl market ior it all? We hear much
4 . foreign market, and certainly we have
:hlpqcd great deal OF agricultural pro-
luct to Europe, but great MS has been the
9uaasity thus shipped, the census reports
show ths. Oh. Of Il total product OF nine
billions Of dollars worth produced that
FEAR Masy.'rpRt cent OF it, exclusive Of
o.'on IN lOblcco, were consumed Mt home,
: the masses in our own country, thus
l'T'ns how immensely greater aud
ore reliable is n home than
l9'esn market. 1t is the fact that
II manufactures have gone on increasing
nd in haud with our agricultural pro.
lets tia. has given us this great home
''ke' This has kept up the price to the
me' notwithstanding all the Advances
d advantages OF machinery. The trouble
the old tines TO which we have referred
Shea wheat WIS sold for 10 cents (aitcl
:
ing ,heshcl with 4 tlaiL and when corr
g lulI 4; y cents, was that we had lin,
u aadeIpenS;ye transportation facilities,
ID still more limited market
nOns nou'Woducers Of agricultural
roiucts at home. Now, all the conditions
e reversed. Agricultural products arc cur.
esf to Liverpool rs Cheap as they used to
carried from the interior Of Ohio to the
Ter here at Wheeling, or to Pittsburgh
M the neishboring counties, and there
hundred home consumers to where
ere was then one, This is the key that
'IocSs the mystery, and that explains
y 'a'incrsare not now tincturcd with free
nc views as they once we're.
"Eare informed that there is dissatis.
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