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TEE GENT:SEE FAPw^rER. 



Vicksburg 'and Port Hudson, and bag Lbk, I don't care 

 if I get nothing for my wool !" 



Our readers must draw their own conclusions from 

 these facts. Our adrice is, sell if you can get a good 

 price — hold on if you can not. By a little agreement and 

 a.'i^istance among themselves, farmers can keep their 

 wool just as well as the dealers. 



The Majikrts. — At the present writing the markets are 

 in a very uncertain state, and afford little criterion of the 

 probable range of prices for the coming harvest. "Wheat 

 and corn have declined, but not as much as the decline in 

 gold would lead us to expect. The reports of the crops 

 are generally favorable, and the harvest will probably be 

 a fair average. Under such circumstances nothing but a 

 high premium on gold can give us high prices. 



At the last advices from England the market was 

 lower. American red winter wheat in London was 

 quoted at $1.41 to f 1.47, and white winter at $1.50 to 

 $1.59 per bush. The -quotations in London and the pre- 

 mium on gold regulate the price of wheat in NewTork — 

 and throughout the country. When gold was up to 172, 

 as it was last February, the $1.50 received for a bushel 

 of wheat in London, was worth $2.58. With gold at 124, 

 its present price, this $1.50 is worth $1.86. The differ- 

 enc, therefore, in the value of a bushel of wheat now and 

 last February is 72 cents. In other words, the fall in the 

 price of gold has reduced the value of a bushel of wheat 

 in this country 72 cents ; and if gold should fall to par, it 

 would reduce the price of wheat, other things being equal, 

 $1.05 per bushel. 



Do farmers realize this? We fear they do not. The 

 hizh prices obtained for produce during the past year, 

 with a few exceptions, have been entirely jictitiouf. They 

 have been owing to the high premium on gold— or, in 

 other words, to the depreciation of our paper currency. 

 The dollar and a half received for a bushel Of American 

 wheat in London was, at one time, worth $2.58 in New 

 York. It is now worth $1.86, and the moment we return 

 to specie, it will be worth — why, $1.50 I 



What the effect of a return to specie payment will be 

 we do not here propose to consider; but that it will 

 greatly reduce the price of everything that we export is 

 a matter that admits of easv demonstration. 



International WiiE.^T Exhibition. — Our wheat-growers 

 of cnurse did not fail to read the call for this exhibition 

 in last week's Farim^ The Great N'orthwesf. should be 

 Well represented at Rochester. It would be gratifying if 

 those liberal premiums could be made to take their way 

 westward. 



So says the PraiH' Farmer. We hope the Great West 

 will be well represented. Especially should we like to 

 s«e wheat from Southern Illinois, where the crop is bar- 

 Tested from six weeks to two months earlier than with 

 US. It would be a good place to get seed wheat from. 

 Let us hear from the wheat-raisers of Southern Illinois, 

 Southern Ohio and Kentucky. 



"A SnKF.r Brbforu." in IklPf MtMenger, alludes to 

 Bheep that " clip from 7 to 8 pounds of wool, and come 

 out at 25 pounds per quarter, 12 months old," and asks, 

 " What more does a tenant firmer require a sheep to dot" 



GEE AT INTERN ATIOlSAL WHEAT SHOW. 



A Great International Wheat Show will be held 

 Rochester, New York, September 8th, 9th, and 10th, u 

 der the auspices of the Monroe County Agricultui 

 Society. Competition open to the world. The foUowii 

 premiums are ottered : 



For the best 20 busliels of White Winter Wheat, $150 



For the seoonii beat -iO bushels of White "Winter Wheat .. 75 



For the best 20 bushels of Red Winter Wheat 100 



For the .second l)est 20 bushels of Ked Winter Wheat,... . 60 



Kiir ihe best 2 bushels of W'hite Winter Wheat, 50 



For the second best 2 bu.shels of White Winter Wheat,... 25 



For the best 2 bushels of Red Winter Wheat, 40 



For the second best 2 bushels ot Ked Winter Wheat, 20 



For the best 2 bushels of Sprinc W^heat, 20 



For the second best 2 bushels of Spring "Wheat, 10 



Competitors for these prizes will be required to furni 

 samples of the wheat in the ear and with the straw s 

 tached, (say 50 ears of wheat and straw;) also to furni; 

 a written statement of the nature of the soil on whii 

 the wheat grew; method of cultivation; time of sowinn 

 quantity of seed sown ; manures, (if any used,) and moi 

 and time of application ; also the time of ripening at 

 harvesting, and the yield per acre, with such other pa 

 ticulars as may be deemed of practical importance; al 

 the name by which the variety is known in the locali 

 where it was grown. 



The wheat must be one variety, pure and unmise 

 The prize to be awarded to the actual grower of tl 

 wheat, aiid the wheat which takes a prize is to hecon 

 the property of the Society. 



It is hoped that farmers in all sections of the Uniti 

 States atd Canada, who hare good samples of wbet 

 will compete for these prizes. We have never yet had 

 good Wheat Show in the United States. It is highly ir 

 portant that the wheat-growers of the country shou 

 meet together and compare samples of wheat raised il 

 different sections. The monej^for these premiums hn 

 been raised by subscription among the friends of agrico 

 ture in Western New York, and the time of holding tl 

 Fair has been fixed so as to enable farmers to purchai 

 their seed from the wheat entered for competition, 

 change of seed is always desirable, and it is believed thr 

 all the wheat of good quality sent to the Fair will fin 

 purchasers at a high price. 



Full particulars can be obtained by addressing tt 

 President of the Society, Joseph Harris, Editor Genes, 

 Farmer, Rochester, N. Y. 



SwEnisH Oats.— A specimen of very heavy black oal 

 was some months since received by the Commissioner o 

 Agriculture from Dr. Charles A. Leas, American Const 

 at Stockholm. Their weight was considerably more tha 

 forty pounds per bushel, and their appearance so promi! 

 ing as a healthy and hardy variety that an order wai 

 given for a quantity for distribution among farmers. 



Farm por Sale.— No. 14.— A farm of ISO acres, in th 

 town of Canaan, Columbia county, N. Y. Good house! 

 barns, and every thing complete and in excellent ordci 

 The owner is anxious to sell on account of advancing ag 

 and infirmity. Price, $5n per acre. [ The address of th 

 owner can be ascertained from the publisher of thi 

 0«M*ee Farmtr. 



