1836.] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



447 



Indies, from whence unusually large supplies are ! 

 arriving in England. 



Tlie new crop is later than usual in lliis part of 

 the couniry — the quality is good, and the present 

 price, (in Petersburg,) 17^ cents, is such as 

 should induce the planters to lose no time in send- 

 ing it to market. The crop in the western states 

 is reported to be large, and a full one in the south, 

 so that an increase of 100,000 bales on the pro- 

 duct of 1835, is the least that can be expected, and 

 150,000 not improbable. 



The apprehended deficiency in the crop of 

 wheat is realized, and the supplies are so sniall 

 that scarcely any flour is shipped from Virginia; 

 and for the first time, the millers of Richniond and 

 Petersburg are about to obtain wheat fi-om JSu- 

 rope. Large imporl;ations of foreign wheat con- 

 tinue to arrive in all the northern markets; but 

 although the appearance of the grain is fine, it 

 does not make o-ood flour, wltliout an admixture 

 with our own. The price of wheat is Irom $;1 75. 

 to ^2 15 per bushel : ot" flour, 9^- to J^IO, and lor 

 best family ^12^. These high rates induce the 

 farmers to hold their corn for a better price than is 

 now current, say 80 cents per bushel. The crop 

 on the navigable rivers is a full one. The in- 

 spections of flour for the quarter ending 1st Octo- 

 ber, compared with those of last year, exhibit the 

 follou'ing result. 



1835. ■ 1836. 



Richmond, 43,069 bhis. 16,133 



Petersburg, 9,383 2,536* 



An intelligent writer in Philadelphia has pub- 

 lished an article on the subject of grain, which 

 com|)rises much information. He says, "this 

 country has been called the greatest wheat grow- 

 ing country, for the extent of its population, and 

 it may have been so forty years ago, when its 

 population was small and wheat flour constituted 

 the most valuable article of" export. But that 

 country cannot be so called which now raises more 

 cotton, more tobacco, and more rice, for export, 

 than any other country, and at the same time pro- 

 duces more Indian corn than of all other kinds of 

 grain together, and is constantly extending in the 

 growth ot cattle, sheep and swi.ie, and in manu- 

 ftictures of every description. In fiict, the growth 

 of wheat, it is evident, has not increased, pro rata, 

 with our population." — "The inquiry has been 

 often made what is the quantity of dilierent kinds 

 of grain raised in the United States, making a fair 

 average crop? This cannot be answered with ac- 

 curacy in the present state of our information on 

 the subject, but from the best attainable, we have 

 estimated those crops as follows. 



"Indian corn, 100,000,000 bushels. 



Wheat, 50,000,000 

 Rye, 20,000,000 



Oafs, 20,000,000 



Barley, 1,250,000" 



The pressure for money in our creat commercial 

 cities is almost unjjaralleled. The rate of dis- 

 count on good paper is as high as 2 per cent, per 

 month or more. Stocks of every sort have contin- 

 ued to decline, and are lower now in New York 

 and Philadelphia than at any previous period du- 

 ring the year. Even those which divide more 



* In I832--3-4 — 14,500 each corresponding quarter. 



than 6 per cent, are considerably below par. The 

 monetary system of the country is in disorder: 

 remittances cannot be m.ade with any facility 

 fiom one place to another — a difl'erence of seve- 

 ral per cent, is made in internal exchanges — no 

 currency of general circulation exists — except an 

 ima<iinary gold one. The large expenditures on 

 works of internal improvement, and investments 

 in lands, &c. require 'he active use of all the cap- 

 ital of the country ; and this is prevented by the 

 vast accumulation of nearly 50 millions of dollars 

 in .he government depositories. 



The price of labor, of provisions, and ot almost 

 every thing, has advanced during the current year 

 — common laborers are hired at double and even 

 treble the wages formerly paid. The profitable 

 culture of cotton has attracted to the west a vaf;t 

 portion of the laborof the southern states — and the 

 extension of rail roads in every direction calls 

 tor more labor than can be spared from agricul- 

 ture. 



Looking from general to local matters, we find 

 the raif roads north and south of Richmond in 

 progress toward completion. The construction of 

 the Raleigh and Gaston Rail Road is commenced, 

 and about one half of the line is under contract. 

 And no sooner is this work begun than a survey 

 is undertaken from Petersburg to Farmville, and 

 proposed to be continued to Lynchburg and Dan- 

 ville. A conditional subscription is already made, 

 in Petersburg alone, of more than .«;200,000, 

 for the stock of such a road, in anticipation of a 

 charter. 



The receipts of the principal articles of produce 

 at New Orleans may be worth recording. 



1834. 1835. 1836. 



Tobacco hhds. 24,963 35,890 49,934 



Cotton bales, 465,103 531,366 498,895 



Flour bbls. 320,660 285,708 287,191 



Sucrar* hhds. 29,582 47,018 5,677 



Bacon in hhds. 7,318 8,243 7,315 



in bulk lb. 615,324 1,519,330 851,263 



Pork in bbls. 91,985 93,381 70,816 



in bulk lb. 2,603,860 7,160,934 5,416,976 



Whiskey bbls. 32,437 36,440 33,193 



As the cultivation of articles of food is doubtless 

 on the increase, particularly in the states border- 

 ing on the Ohio, it thus appears that a greater 

 proportion is required for the consumption of the 

 interior, which maybe readily ascribed to the vast 

 emifrration to the west. 



October, 24///. 



X. 



FRENCH PRACTICE AS!) OPIIVIOIVS AS TO THE 

 CHINESE MULBERRY. 



The article of M. Loiseleur Deslongcliamps on 

 successive crops of cocoons, from which we translated 

 some extracts for the last No. is continued at some 

 length in the succeeding (August) No. of the Jlnnales 

 — and its conclusion is yet to come. It consists mostly 

 of generalities, together with other and more minute 

 directions for making successive rearings of silkworms, 

 which would scarcely be now of any value to our 

 readers. We shall attend to what the future continu- 

 ation may offer. In the mean time, tlie following 



* Shipped coastwise. 



