Year: 1869

from healthy seeding, trees. She thinned


the fruit, and had it large


The Time to Sell Crops.-"Audi Alteram Par
| tenn"


CLEAR the other side" is safe maxim


in making up a correct judgment upon any
subject; and, as we have already given
some reasons in these columns why far


mers should not sell their wheat at the


present time, we proceed to give some ar


gumcnts on the other side in favor of sell


ling, which have been furnished US by u


mercantile friend. The subjoined article


Dry Goods Reporter, and Of course is writ


ten more in the interest of the Mercan-


tile, than the Agricultural classes. Our
agricultural readers will remember that


we advised them against selling their wheat
at the present low price, stating that we
believed that wheat would command S.
per bushel before Christmas, and basing
this opinion on reported short crop in
Russia and an insufficient crop in Eng
Land. 1t is now conceded. here, that corn
will be q very short crop, i'll all parts of this
country, and wheat must supply the def
cit. This will create an additional de.
mand, and is another reason in favor of an
advance in the price of wheat. But, the
farmer must weigh both sides of the argu-
ment and judge for himself 1t is one
thing to make crop, and another to know
when to sell it. Here is the argument in
favor of pushing" the crops to market.
This argument is doubtless based upon the
fact, that the country is indebted to the
city, and the city wants its money. The
farmer is therefore advised to sell that the
city may be paid


lMPQRTANCE OF PUsHING THE CRops To
MARKET.- Fall trade in breadstufs
has set IL with an activity that promises
well for the general business of the coun-
try If this activity should continue dur
ing the balance of the season, their effects
can scarcely f4i! to prove most beneficial.
When farmers send their grain freely to
market at an early period of the season,
they receive from the sale of their crops
the means Of satisfying their general do
nestle wants. They have something to
invest III wearing apparel and other arti-
cles of consumption, and the country stores
drive brisk trade the influence of which
is felt in the great marts of commerce.
Our wheat crop, in spite of every draw
back, is probably considerably above the
highest average ever known in the United
States. We shall have an abundance for
home consumption, and Il lrage surplus |
for expectation. Corn is going to be short |
But, on the whole, our cereal crops are
most hountitul, and secure MS the means
for return TO something like the abun-
dance and cheapness of former times


But, in order to realize the highest ben
etits from the abundant crops vouchsafed
by kind Providence, it is necessary that
they should be pushed forward to market
as speedily as possible. Our canal and
railroad systems of transportation should
be taxed to their highest capacity from this
until the suspension of navigation in the
movement Of breadstuiIs. 1t caunot be too |
earnestly impressed upon farmers and NOR
chants that they are more likely to lose 4!
than to gain, by holding back crops in the |
vain expectation of an advance in prices |
The harvest is too abundant for that. The |
only possible chance for an advance lies in |
the contingency of IA heavy demand for
European consumption. A few weeks |
wet weather in England this month would |
undoubtedly send up prices on this side of
the Atlantic.


But it is not safe to calculate too much
upon the wants of Europe. We did so
last year, and lost iucalculably in conse-
quence. 1t is best to sell-and sell prompt
ly--at fair prices. A year ago farmers
and forwarders pursued different policy
to their own ruin, They held ON to bread
stuf1s until the close Of navigation caught
them with immense supplies at the great
distributing points in the West A 'cor-
ner' was engineered in Chicago that sent
up prices to figure which Eastern and
European dealers could not touch. The
consequences were disastrous in every way
Farmers, of course, held back in the face
of rising market, and only the few who
were wise enough to sell, realized hand
somely at the expense of the operators.
Shipments from Chicago, Buffalo and 9TH
er points almost ceased. White Michigan
was sold in this city, August 14th, 1868,
at So 65 and 50 80 per bushel, aud other
grades in proportion, At last, when the
bubble burst there was no market. when
prices fell to $1,25. The English market
had been supplied from the Continent of