The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-04-02

II we extend the comparison to the present
dato, We find that the corn crop exceeds 2,CO0-
OOOOOO bushels wheat approXiu es 30, O0J 0JJ /;
oats eYcod 100000 900; and hay and pota .oes
have increased in similar proportion. While
the product may be three or four times as large
the popu n ion ~ less thnn three times MS much,
though the proportion of workers engaged in
agriculture was larger than now.
HARD TO ToR1 T. A MARKET.
During the forty years from 1850 to tho pres
emit time the cotton product increased from a
lit 10 over 2,OOO.ODO bales to more than 10000 -
bales. Cattle have also increased very rapidly !;
cows from between G,0O0 900 and 1000, 900 10
about 100000; other cattle fom scarcely
II, 200, 900 to more than 80 90 900. Will sheep
have doubled in num hers the wool production
has quadruIled. While the milk are nj
most three times as many their average rate
OF yield OF milk has probably doubled. The
Improvement OF other cattle through breeding
aud feeding has reduced the time required
fer maturity and increased the weight OF
carcass To such an extent that the amount
Of beef produced annually In proportion to
number OF animals kept IL immensely increased
Relative numbers In compari son with the past
in all kinds of domestic animals have far less
significance than improvement in weight and
qualify In thriftiness and early maturity. IL
Is difficult to force a market abroad for sur
plus OF any product. Every nasion is seeking %
produce its own food. and, as far as possible,
it's raw material for extension In all forms Of
Industrial production. The instinct of self
preservation compels the adoption OF such n
policy This furnishes the motive for the corn
laws of France and Germany and other CONT
nontal countries. and the laws OF European
tions prohibiting the introduction Of our pork
products. We cannot sell our crops abroad n =
"a rule, except TO I'LL the gaps in supply that are
lie by bad seasons, or o,her results of the in
evitnble or memorable.
A SENATORIAL PLAN.
When Senator Sumner once proposed 20 levy
an export tax of 20 cents per pound on toba CO
and compel tribute from Tor, ignsrs he was
soon GOWN ed by practical tobacco men that
8 only effect woulI be To destr, our importa-
ton, and he at once abandoned the idea. The
amount grown in Europe and the quantity I'M
~,
trol thcre, and never by the Government or
growers here, and under the infu % o. this
regula,ion the proportion OF our crop 90 ported
Is declining, being REDUCED slightly belo y one
half, n. nothing that our Government or grow
ers can 90 will change this fact
In cotton this country enjoys an acknowledged
superiority. and will doubtless continue TO hold
10. IL supplies TO the cotton factories OF the
world more than half their material. IL can in
or ase this supply, with the inevitable effect OF
reducing the price The sale does not depend
on our purchases abroad. It's aggregate would
not be reduced n pound IL we should refuse 10
to spend single dollar for foreign produces.
The, mills must have the fiber. and nov hero
else can 1t be had of so good quality and value.
We can manufacture more OF a. here aud thus
Increase foreign competition for It, but tho prod
net can not be enlarged beyond the current
wants OF the worlds trads vi hOut ducing the
price OF fiber and 70 RIGS. Thus the law OF sup
ply and demand limits the extension Of the cot
ton-folds
In wheat overTroduction has destroyed the
growers profit. Whest-rrow ing has b come
philanthropic mission for supplying cheap
bread u Great Britain and encoura dug her
manufacturers To keep wages low y ane.
The Northwe I'm missionaries siill dill
gently sowing their seed and fioa ing their bread
across the waters, and mourning that the
profits do not return To them after many DAYS
OF weary transportation. The area OF the crop
OF 1888 included about 0,00J O0J acres more than
the homo consumption OF the year will require,
aud tn Price in liverp. oil has OF late boon the
lowest for century. We ,alnot force foreien-
ers 10 buy our bread. III ere Las been a innss OF
tnenablos nonsense reg trufng -the markets OF
the world for wheat Less than fourth of the
people OF the world eat wheat. Halt of the peo-
Pile of Europe scarcely kno " It's taste while few
OF the nations OF Asa and Africa have any
knowledge OF It,
TOO MUCH MEAT.
The production OF meas has also advanced
ftster than population. In 1890 the cattle OF
all kinds wero returned as 1851, $50 head, and