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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
THE MAN WHO ADVERTISED HIS FARM, 
AND THE MAN THAT DID NOT. 
Every body is acquainted with Samuel A. 
Walker, Esq., the celebrated auctioneer, and 
almost every body, when they have any thing 
to sell by auction, call on him. A month or 
two since the auctioneer was sitting in his office, 
reading one of the daily papers, when a well¬ 
appearing man entered and inquired for Mr. 
Walker. The auctioneer said in his happiest 
manner that he was the individual, and at the 
same time desired his visitor to be seated. The 
stranger gave his name, and said he resided in 
Saugus, on the border of Malden, and having 
bought dry goods and bandannas of the auc¬ 
tioneer when he was in that line in Kilby street, 
he had now come to renew his acquaintance, 
and to get him to sell some land which he owned 
in Malden. 
He stated to Mr. Walker that he only wanted 
his services as a salesman — he, the owner, 
would do all the rest. He did not intend to 
have any advertisements in the newspapers, as 
he had given notice at the last town-meeting 
that he should sell his land at auction, and that 
was notice enough. The owner desired to se¬ 
cure the services of Mr. Walker for the day, 
and inquired his price. The amiable auctioneer 
said he would go down and sell for him for one 
dollar. This was agreed to, only it was stipu¬ 
lated that the- auctioneer should pay his own 
fare each way. This Mr. Walker agreed to, 
and his visitor returned delighted with having 
secured the eminent services of the auctioneer 
for so low a figure, after paying the one dollar 
to the auctioneer, who then secured his next 
customer, and the business of the morning 
went along as usual. 
When the day appointed for the sale arrived, 
the auctioneer hastened to the cars and was 
soon landed at the depot in Saugus, where the 
owner of the land was anxiously awaiting his 
arrival. He was overjoyed at seeing him, and 
after exchanging the compliments of the morn¬ 
ing, and taking a glass of cold water, the land- 
owner and the auctioneer, the former with a 
spy glass and the latter with a small red flag, 
were seen footing it for the location of the land 
which he was to sell. After a dusty walk of 
half an hour they arrived at the spot, where 
they remained for an hour after the time ap¬ 
pointed for the sale to commence—the owner 
and the auctioneer being the only persons within 
two miles of the place about to be sold by auc¬ 
tion. The owner wondering why the people 
did not come, and the auctioneer wondering 
why they should come—thus ended the unad¬ 
vertised land sale. 
A few days after, the old fogy sold his land 
at private sale to a well known operator in real 
estate, for six thousand dollars, which was the 
price he paid for it some seven years since, 
wisely coming to the conclusion that he was 
behind the times, and could not make much by 
selling land at auction, even if he employed a 
Boston auctioneer. All the foregoing happened 
in April of the present year. About the first 
of May another stranger called upon the same 
auctioneer, and said he had a beautiful place 
in Malden, near Saugus, to sell by auction. 
The auctioneer said he had some experience 
down that way, and did not care to risk his 
hard-earned reputation and his time by again 
visiting Malden professionally. The stranger 
was in earnest, he described the place and gave 
the name of the previous owner, when it came 
out that the auctioneer was a second time called 
upon to sell what he facetiously calls the dollar 
farm. The auctioneer declined at first to have 
any thing to do with the matter. The new 
owner was a man of progress, not an old fogy. 
He is acquainted with business and up with the 
times. He said to the auctioneer, I want your 
services as auctioneer, and I authorize you to 
spend not exceeding $500 in procuring plans 
and in properly placing before the people this 
valuable piece of property, for valuable I know 
it to be. 
The auctioneer and the owner the following 
day visited the spot, and a few days afterwards 
a beautiful lithographic plan of the farm was 
placed upon our table, and in the commercial 
papers and nearly all of the other dailies, ap¬ 
peared one of those brilliant and attractive ad¬ 
vertisements for which Mr. Walker is so cele¬ 
brated, setting forth in truthful terms the ad¬ 
vantages of the location about to be sold by 
him by auction. The day of sale arrived, nearly 
a thousand persons attended, every lot was sold, 
the aggregate amount of which was near twelve 
thousand dollars, the operation yielding to the 
owner a net profit of something over $5,000 
after paying the usual commission to the auc¬ 
tioneer and all the other charges. Every one 
was pleased with his purchase, and several new 
houses are now being built upon the premises, 
all of which may be seen as the passengers 
pass along by railroad. Judicious advertising 
and a proper expenditure, always results favor¬ 
ably ; old fogies will take warning from the fate 
of the man who did not advertise.— Boston 
News. 
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THE WHEAT CROP OF OHIO, 
AND THE WHEAT PRODUCTION AND EXPORTATION 
OF THE UNITED STATES. 
ceived from most of the counties in this State, 
and we may safely say, (on the hypothesis that 
the crop is safely ripened and secured,) that 
there will not be more than an average crop, and 
hardly that. There is nothing, therefore, in 
this State, nor, we think, in the United States, 
upon which to base an expectation that the 
markets will be suddenly filled, by the surplus 
crop. If the amount of wheat sown in the 
country has not been very greatly increased, 
the surplus for exportation will not be very 
large. The granaries of the West have been 
pretty thoroughly drained, by the export de¬ 
mand of the past fall and winter. On the sup¬ 
position that the crop of Ohio is 25,000;000, 
there will be 14,000,000 bushels for exportation, 
and the export of the United States, in wheat 
and flour, cannot be made double that, without 
raising the price enormously. The export of 
wheat from Ohio, in 1853, (last year,) was about 
as follows: 
Port of Cleveland..5,000,000 bushels. 
“ Toledo. 3,000,000 “ 
“ Sandusky. 2,500,000 ■' 
“ Harmar.... 400,000 “ 
“ Portsmouth. 100,009 “ 
“ Cincinnati. 1,750,000 “ 
Miscellaneous.„... 250,000 “ 
Via Pittsburgh.. 300,000 “ 
Intimately connected with the railways of 
the country, is the great subject of bread. 
Breadstuffs not only make a large item for 
transportation, but they are the principle ele¬ 
ment of food which sustains the laborer in con¬ 
structing Public Works. If the price of a 
bushel of wheat doubles, the price of a day’s la¬ 
bor will very nearly double. This again will 
increase the cost of grading a mile of railway 
nearly double for the same amount of work. In 
time, nearly all branches of labor will be regu¬ 
lated, in wages by the price of wheat. It is 
doubted, by political economists, whether gold 
is as near a standard of value, as a bushel of 
wheat. In fact, a man must have bread, and 
the “ must ” scarcely extends to any thing else; 
so that is to regarded as the real standard of 
value. Now, it must be remarked, that a pound 
of bread has not borne so high a value in fifteen 
years, if ever. One reason of this, and the 
great one here, is that railways have equalized 
prices, so that at Cincinnati, flour bears nearly 
the same price as in New-York. But, aside 
from this, the price has been very high through¬ 
out the whole country. The great cause of that, 
we took occasion to point out six months since 
in the Record. This is, that the United States 
really has not a great surplus of loheat. It was 
not in the country, and consequently a foreign 
demand beyond the usual average, would at 
once raise prices. It did so, and prices are 
much higher than we anticipated. The question 
now arises, what are the prospects ahead? 
Will bread be much cheaper? That it will not 
come down soon to the former low prices, we 
feel convinced. But let us judge of this by the 
best lights—the statistics of production. We 
begin with the State of Ohio, which usually 
raises about one-fifth of all the wheat raised in 
the United States. The laws of Ohio require 
the Assessors to ascertain annually, the precise 
breadth (in acres) of wheat and corn planted, 
and the quantity produced. After making an 
allowance for these, or from counties omitted in 
the returns, we have the following amounts of 
wheat raised in three successive years, almost 
exactly: 
■Acres planted. 
In 18^0. 1.8 8.106 
In 1851.1,657.252 
In 1852 .1,724,715 
Average per acre In 1850 .. 
“ “ 1851... 
“ “ 1852 .. 
Bushels procured. 
3I,'I9,I30 
25,309,225 
22,962 774 
....17 bushels 
....15 
....14 “ 
It will be seen from this return, that not only 
the aggregate amount, but the average per acre, 
declined in Ohio during these three years. The 
result of last year’s crop has not yet been pub¬ 
lished ; but we know enough of its general cha¬ 
racter, to set it down as an average crop, pro¬ 
bably equal to 24,000,000. The aggregate of 
the above three years is 80,000,000, and the 
average 26,660,000. Accounts have been re¬ 
Aggregate.13,300,000 “ 
This is very nearly the exact amount of 
wheat and flour (rendered to bushels,) exported 
from Ohio in 1853. A minute examination 
would probably increase it. 
Now let us look at the production and expor¬ 
tation in the United States. 
In 1849 United States crop of Wheal... .100,485,944 bushels 
In 1850 “ “ “ “ ....143,000,000 
The crop of 1849 was in many States, espe¬ 
cially in Ohio and Indiana, a bad one. Look¬ 
ing, however, to any possible increase, we can¬ 
not anticipate the crop of 1854 to be above one 
hundred and fifty millions. Now the average 
consumption of wheat, in families using wheat 
bread, and occasionally some corn meal and 
buckwheat, is six bushels per individual, inclu¬ 
ding all classes. Our population is now about 
26,000,000, of whom twenty millions are wheat 
bread consumers. They will consume 120,000,- 
000 bushels, and we shall not have (on the hy¬ 
pothesis of 150,000,000 crop) more than thirty 
millions of bushels for export! In fact, we 
never have had, in one year more than that. 
Now let us look at the actual exportation. 
The exports of the United States in wheat and 
flour, reduced to bushels, in 1851 and 1852, 
were as follows: 
Crop. Export. 
In 1851.101,000,000 bushels. 12,038 480 bushels 
In 1852,... ...143,000,000 “ 16,551,902 “ 
It will be seen that the proportion was very 
nearly the same, viz., 12 per cent of the crop. 
In a crop of 150,000,000—the same proportion 
will give 18,000,000 bushels for transportion. 
But as the price was then low, we must allow 
for an increased export, under high prices. 
Thirty million , however, is the very utmost 
which we can export, without changing the use 
of wheat flower to that of corn. But how many 
people will do that? Such is the ease of living 
in the United States, that we undertake to say 
that no considerable number of people will 
change their habits, in this respect for any thing 
short of famine prices. It is very evident then, 
that if the war in Europe continues, deranging, 
as it does, the sources of supply and the market 
for breadstuffs, that the prices for breadstuffs 
in this country, will continue to range much 
above the ordinary average. 
There is a popular error, as to the production 
of wheat in the United States, which pervades 
the commercial circles, as well as the newspa¬ 
pers. It arises from confounding the capacity 
to produce, with the actual production. Men 
look round on the fertile, grain growing soil of 
the United States, and say, “ We can feed all 
Europe.” Very true, we can, but we do not. 
The countries on the Baltic, and the Black Sea, 
send vastly greater surpluses to maket than we 
do, and always will unless prices rule higher in 
