1847. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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Foreign Demand for Breadstuffs. 



The news brought by the Cambria shows a 

 falling off in the price of wheat, corn, flour, and 

 meal, in English and Irish markets. It is im- 

 possible to have any stability in prices where 

 grain factors and the people are alike intensely ex- 

 cited, the former by the hope of extravagant gains, 

 and the fear of overwhelming losses; and the lat- 

 ter by painful apprehensions of protracted famine. 



On the 3d of April corn was worth from 50 to 

 55 shillings a quarter — equal to about -$1,50 per 

 bushel. At a fair price for freight, corn should 

 still be worth a dollar a bushel at New York to 

 ship to England. The price however is 90 a 93 

 cents. Genesee flour is worth in New York 

 $•7,87^ a 94, (on the 26th April.) 



There are only two nations that have any con- 

 siderable surplus of grain in the civilized world 

 at this time. They are the United States and 

 Russia. This surplus, so far as the U. S. are 

 concerned, has been greatly over estimated in 

 England. The Mark Lane Express of the 29th 

 March, now before us, puts it down at one hun- 

 dred and fifty millions bushels ! This estimate 

 is based on that annual budget of extravagant 

 guessing, the Report of the Commissioner of 

 Patents. Our surplus is about 30 million?, or one 

 fourth the estimated sum. The following are 

 our exports for 7 months beginning Sept. 1st, 

 1840, and ending April 1st, 1847 : 



Wheat flour ...bbls. 1,440,838 



Corn meal, " 325,127 



Wheat, ....bush. 1,400,912 



InJian corn, " 8,605,444 



Rye,. " 1,890 



Outs, " 158,326 



Barley, " 130,591 



The total exports to foreign ports during the 



same time were, of 



Wheat Hour, bbls. 2,223,139 



Wheat, - bush. 1 ,916,367 



Imlian corn, '^ 9,176,429 



Of which there were from New Orleans — 



To Great Britain. France. 



Wheat flour, - _ bbls. 337,362 123,218 



Wheat, bush. 60.593 125,782 



Indiancorn, '1,247,525 1,916 



and from New York 



To Great Britain. France. 



Wheat flour, bbls. 708,263 120,7.32 



Wheat, .bush. 1,012,714 174,236 



Indiancorn, •' 3,440,955 4,016 



and of Rye to all foreign ports, 607,947 bushels. 



Reduce the flour to wheat in the estimate, and 

 we have about 21,-500,000 bushels exported in 7 

 months of famine prices. If we export 18,500,- 

 000 by the first of September next, we venture 

 to assert that there will remain in the country a 

 precious little of the crops of 1846. 



Corn.— A Seasonable Hint.— The Pike Co., 

 (111.) Free Press, says: — " In planting, use pure 

 while or entirely yelloio corn for seed. A mix- 

 ture will not bring as much in market, for com- 

 merce, by from three to five cents per bushel, as 

 either kind will when entirely pure." 



To Correspondents. 



Communications have been received, during 

 the past month, from Cileb K. Hobbie, Solomon 

 Hitchcock, Lucius B. Manly, *, A. Reynolds, 

 David Thomas, N. Goodsell, B. Hodge, J. D C, 

 J. W. M., D. C. B., G. C. Sprague, L. Barker, 

 Conrad Miller, Morris Barton, Farmer Tim, *, 

 R. D. Palmer, Duodecahedron, N. Y. State Ag. 

 Society, E. R. Porter, A Farmer, A Subscriber, 

 H. B. H., Lincoln Cummings, W. L. V. D., A. 

 W., D. A. Ogden, J. M. Morrison, and D. W. 

 Halstead. 



In order to make room for important and sea- 

 sonable articles from correspondents, we have 

 deferred several illustrations intended for this 

 number of the Farmer. 



Cheese Making. — Will not some one en- 

 gaged in the manufacture of cheese write us a 

 communication, stating the present most improv- 

 ed process for conducting the operation ? 



New York State Agricultural Society. 



The Executive Committee have the satisfac- 

 tion to announce to the agriculturists of the State, 

 that our distinguished fiellow citizen, the Hon. 

 Silas Wright, has accepted an invitation ten- 

 dered to him to deliver the annual address on the 

 Fair ground at Saratoga, on the 16th of Septem- 

 ber next. 



It will doubtless have been perceived from the 

 published proceedings of the Executive Commit- 

 tee, that they have in accordance with the rec- 

 ommendation expressed by the Society, at the 

 annual meeting in January, located the Cattle 

 Show and Fair at Saratoga Springs, to be held 

 on the 14th, 15th, and J[6th of September, 1847. 



A delegation of the Committee visited Sarato- 

 ga, and selected a fine elevated plat of ground, 

 within a quarter of a mile of Congress Spring, 

 containing an area of fifteen acres or more, which 

 will be enclosed. Spacious buildings will be 

 erected within the enclosure, with ample accom- 

 odations for all articles presented for exhibition. 



Care will also be taken that arrangements on 

 an extensive scale appropriate to the occasion be 

 made for the reception and exhibition of every 

 description of stock, farm implements, articles of 

 domestic manufacture, fruits, flowers, and arti- 

 cles of mechanic skill. 



Arrangements will be made with the several 

 Rail Road Companies for the gratuitous transpor- 

 tation of stock, as well as other articles designed 

 for exhibition, so as to arrive a day or two pre- 

 vious to the first day of exhibition. 



The two rail roads leading to Saratoga will be 

 in readiness to transport without hindiance or 

 delay, the visitors who may desire to be present 

 on the occasion. Geo. Vail, PresH. 



B. P. Johnson, Sec'y. 



Agricultural Rooins, Albany, April 8, 1847. 



