Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-20

Contemplate The Cora Crop.


~ corn crop Of this country in 1889
- very large and the price paid the
g1ner was the lowest on record. Con-
ey TO expectations of many Eastern
oerverS the yield per acre In the corn
owing states of the Northwest is as re-
nfkabls a. ever, while the Eastern states
bow d falling off. In 1885 Pennsylva-
- grew thirty-two and half bushels
corn to the acre, worth 40 cents a
shell, $15.93 an acre. In 1880 the Penn
Vlvania crop averaged 29.S bushels to
- acre, worth 40 cents OF Sl3.T an
noee. Nebraska in 1885 raised 38.7
uDhels per aero, worth 10 cents or $6.97
ut acre, and four year later, with
early the same average yield, Nebraska
Hkmen got 1921 an acre. From these
rures reported by the department Of
Eicultpre It may be seen that the diff
ehcep between the price Of corn In
obraska and in Pennsylvapia has
lminished. The cost of transportation
70 fallen and tho Eastern farmer Is
ling the advantage he possesses of
1ng nearer to the foreign markets
hich take the surplus Of our corn crop.
~ freight ON corn from Nebraska to
AlcAgo was 38 cents In 1885, now II il
cents. So far as cost of transporta-
Hon goes Nebraska seems to be steadily
arawing nearer to Chicago, and that
naturAl protection to the Eastern farmer
! y decreasing. More wonderful still, the
zlkslght from Nebraska TO New York is
sonly "a cents, although other charges
NnAke corn cost 80 cents more there than
IN Nebraska. Pennsylvania farmers do
not seem 10 have very cheerful pros
pect before them In the corn business
and In fact the states Of the far West
mo crowding the market In a way
that II 10 embarrassing to all the corn
growers east Of the Mississippi. The Bal
tlmore American, In commenting on this
! state OF things, finds little comfort for
The Maryland farmer, and Pennsylva-
niAns are in the same fix. The building
~ railways rapidly widens the corn
1ahds Of the Northwest, year by year,
and vast Indian reservations are to be
lhr0wn open to settlement in the Dako-
~ and Montana, while the improve
;UAent of the Sault st. Marie canal, and
Hthe building Of great commercial
Il narlne OH the lakes, assures the further
& 88heapening Of transportation. The Can
1lan government has declared Its In
entlon to widen and deepen the st.
s4ewrence canals, and an outlet straight
~ Europe may thus be furnished for
1eamers loading at Chicago or Duluth.
But perhaps the Eastern farmer can
i ons0le himself after the manner of the
y who could not reach the grapes and
kcss to believe them sour. The foreign
market IL after nll mighty uncertain,
md waxing more so. Steam Is bringing
agricultural produce from all parts of
he world to satisfy the European de-
&1nAnds. A more enlightened tariff
policy encouraging our manufacturers
- compete for foreign trade may restore
Industrial vigor and widen the homo de-
Inand. When Pennsylvania working
n,sn In shops and factories can afford to
zoAt meat often and are not obliged to
oconomize in marketing the farmers of
this region will have home market
that no railroad king can threaten and
this bright future will be in sight when
Ne can begin to manufacture largely for
foreign lands as well as for America.