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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



a fuli average yield — in the British isles at least. 

 The auspicious change of the weather almost 

 produced a panic in the British markets and 

 prices declined considerably, but subsequently 

 there was a reaction, and a portion of the de- 

 cline was recovered. It seems to be conceded 

 by those conversant with the grain-trade, that 

 prices will not materially decline the present 

 season. The consumption of breadstulFs will be 

 largely increased everywhere under the benign 

 influences of a general peace, and its concomi- 

 tant, prosperity ; the stocks of last years' wheat 

 are nearly exhausted, before the new crop is 

 garnered ; and, after a general survey, taking 

 into consideration the serious losses resulting 

 from the inundations in France and elsewhere, 

 the conclusion is arrived at, that Europe will 

 again require heavy supplies from this side of 

 the Atlantic. The exports for the commercial 

 year, ending 31st inst., will not reach 30,000,000 

 bushels, and we may safely rely for a demand 

 the ensuing year equal to 25,000,000 bushels, to 

 be supplied from a crop certainly not larger than 

 the preceding one. If these inferences are cor- 

 rect, it is very improbable that prices will de- 

 scend to the level which has been anticipated by 

 some. 



The deliveries of wheat into Richmond, since 

 1st July, have been largely in advance of those 

 for the corresponding period of last year, and 

 have tended in no small degree to the depression 

 of the market. Prices, however, have succum- 

 bed no great deal, and at present writing, the 

 range for the best qualities is $1 50 @, $1 60 — 

 only 20 cents below the fancy opening price. 



The prospects of the corn crop were consider- 

 ably brightened in the early part of August by 

 copious rains, in all parts of the State, but the 

 relief came too late for- the forward corn, and 

 we think that prices will rule relatively higher 

 than for wheat during the season. It is worth 

 75 @ 80 cents per bushel in our market, at 

 present. 



Tobacco continues to 'command fine prices. 

 The accounts from the West, in regard to the 

 growing crop are very gloomy, and if verified 

 will maintain the present range of prices. 



Groceries are generally unchanged. Bacon 

 has been fluctuating during the month, and the 

 market closes rather heavily at llf @ 12 cents 

 for sides, and 10 J @ 10| for shoulders — whole- 

 sale. 



A CARD. 



The time is at hand when members of the 

 Virginia State Agricultural Society who design 

 to assist in the inauguration of the representa- 

 tive principle in the government of the society 

 should commence action. The new constitution 

 provides, that the voters of each County, City 

 and Town, shall be called together by proper 

 public notice, to meet on the days of their res- 

 pective County or Corporation Courts, in Sep- 

 tember or October, in each year, and at such 

 hour and place as may be prescribed by the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee ; and shall elect for each Dis- 

 trict by plurality of votes cast, for every fifty 

 [the first fifty] members of the society therein, 

 one Representative to the Farmers Assembly, 

 and for every additional hundred numbers an 

 additional Representative. The prescribed no- 

 tice for calling the voters together has been 

 given ; the days of election in each of the seve- 

 ral Districts have been designated ; the commis- 

 sioners to conduct the elections have been ap- 

 pointed ; and all the instructions deemed neces- 

 sary for the intelligent and proper discharge of 

 their duties, have been furnished. It only re- 

 mains now for the voters in the several districts 

 to see to it, that this new feature, rendered by 

 the unparalleled growth of the society, indis- 

 pensably necessary to enable it to deliberate and 

 act in an orderly and proper manner on matters 

 of business, does not fail of its introduction by 

 reason of their apathy or neglect. Let them at 

 once, call out their ablest and best men as can- 

 didates for the post of representative, than which 

 none more honorable could be assigned them, 

 and let them be supported with a unanimity 

 and generous confidence, commensurate with 

 the dignity and importance of the trust, and we 

 shall assuredly witness in the assemblage of the 

 elected representatives of the Farmers of the 

 State, a sample of the moral worth, intelligence 

 and dignity of her sons, which more than all 

 her varied and vast resources of wealth and 

 power constitute the chief element of her great- 

 ness and the crowning glorv of Virginia. 



CH. B. WILLIAMS, 

 Sec. Va. State Ag'l Society. 



Editors throughout the State, who are friend- 

 ly to the object of the above card, are respect- 

 fully requested to copy it into their papers. 



ON THE VALUE OF CERTAIN HIGH 



PRICED FERTILIZERS. 

 From an excellent article on the above sub- 

 ject, by Prof. S. W. Johnson, of Yale College, 

 published in the Homestead, we extract the fol- 

 lowing portion, regretting that we have not 

 room for the whole. 



In the part omitted is his statement where an 

 analysis of a single specimen of Guano or Su- 

 per Phosphate cannot be made for less than ten 

 dollars. As our friends, Drs. Powell and Dove, 



