AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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A Bit of Advice. —Have you enemies'! 
Go straight on and don’t mind them. If they 
get in your way, walk round them, regardless 
of their spite. A man that has no enemies 
is seldom good for anything—he is made of 
that kind of material which is so easily 
worked that every one has a hand in it. A 
sterling character—one who thinks for him¬ 
self, and speaks what he thinks, is always 
sure to have enemies. They are as ne¬ 
cessary to him as fresh air; they keep him 
alive and active. A celebrated character, 
who was surrounded by enemies, used to re¬ 
mark : ‘ They are sparks which if you do 
not blow will go out themselves.’ Let this 
be your feeling, while endeavoring to live 
down the scandal of those who are bitter 
against you. If you stop to dispute, you do 
but as they desire, and open the way for 
more abuse. Let the poor fellows talk— 
there will be a reaction, if you preform bu 
your duty, and hundreds who were once 
alienated from you, will flock to you and 
acknowledge their error. 
Yesterday morning at 4 o’clock P. M., a 
small man named Jones, or Brown, or Smith, 
with a heel in the hole of his trowsers, com¬ 
mitted arsenic by swallowing a dose of sui¬ 
cide. The verdict of the inquest returned a 
jury that the deceased came to the facts in 
accordance with his death. He leaves a 
child and six small wives to lament the end 
of his untimely loss. In death we are in the 
midst of life .—Springfield Republican. 
REMARKS. 
New-York, Wednesday, August 15. 
Compared with one week ago, the poorest 
grade of flour is 12b cents lower ; the me¬ 
dium unchanged, while the higher grades 
have advanced 12jja25c. per bbl. With an 
admixture of a small amount of grown ker¬ 
nels in much of the wheat heretofore pro¬ 
ducing the “ Extra Genesee flour,” we shall 
not look for an immediate large decline in 
this brand. Indeed there is so large a class 
of persons who are accustomed to this spe¬ 
cific brand, and who being able, will have it 
at any price. With the fact that there is 
not likely to be a large supply of this, it will 
undoubtedly rule disproportionately high 
through the year. We say disproportion¬ 
ately high, since, for the purposes of muscle 
or strength-supplying food, the darker quali¬ 
ties are even superior to the whiter. The 
whiter flour is, the less gluten it contains, and 
the nearer it approaches to pure starch, 
which is not the best food for laborers, the 
less valuable it is, however appropriate it may 
be for confectionary, dessert puddings, or for 
weak stomachs. 
The wheat harvest is now about over. 
Since the 1st of this month, the weather over 
the whole country has averaged as favorable 
as in ordinary years. Any excess of injury 
from rain this year over common years was 
done prior to August 1st. The amount of 
that injury we estimated last week as “ not 
exceeding one-tenth, probably not one-twen¬ 
tieth.” Another week’s reports fully con¬ 
firm this estimate ; indeed we doubt very 
much whether the loss upon the entire wheat 
crop has come any where near to one-ttven- 
tieth; for in making up this estimate we 
must only reckon that lost by rotting, or 
beating down so that it could not be gathered. 
The great bulk of sprouted wheat, though les 
sened in market value,is not lost for consump¬ 
tion. This view will bear out our estimate of 
the actual total loss. No one but the most in¬ 
veterate croaker or interested speculator 
will hesitate to admit that the wheat crop of 
1855 is considerably above an average yield. 
How far this excess will be counterbalanced 
by the European demand, by the short sup¬ 
ply of old stocks, and by the abundance of 
money, it is impossible now to predict, but 
the stronger probability is, that in connection 
with the great yield of corn and other crops, 
the average price of flour for the coming 
year will be much below the present. The 
current price of flour in NeAV-York furnishes 
no criterion for judging of the future, as a 
moment’s consideration will show. The un¬ 
certainty as to the future, and the high prices 
prevailing, would have effectually prevented 
speculators from laying in their usual stock 
of old flour, even had such a stock been 
available at the west. This market then 
was very bare, and it has been impossible, as 
yet, to bring forward new flour fast enough 
to make up this deficiency and meet the cur¬ 
rent demands for consumption. Indeed there 
is not yet enough new flour for present con¬ 
sumption ; hence the continued high prices. 
And this is likely to continue for a few weeks 
yet, since there is much hay to be gathered, 
the summer grains are ripening, and putting 
in the next crop of wheat will soon require 
the whole farm force, so that really farmers 
can not stop to get wheat to market; and if 
they could, it will take some time to get 
much wheat threshed, floured, and brought 
to tide-water, through the ordinary cheap 
but slow channels. Again, the uncertainity, 
the freedom from debt, and the unwilling¬ 
ness to take a lower price than has prevailed 
heretofore, will make wheat raisers loth to 
sell their wheat. They reason thus,wheat 
has been $2 50 per bushel, it may be again, 
and I will run tlie’risk and wait.” There is 
danger that something like the following 
will be the result. Every body will hold 
back their wheat, and high prices will ne¬ 
cessarily continue, since enough must be had 
for consumption ; and navigation will per¬ 
haps close with three-fourths of the surplus 
wheat locked up in western barns and gran¬ 
aries. But when spring comes, a large 
amount of wheat must be sold, and the rush 
to the market will sink the prices far below 
what they would have been had the wheat 
come regularly into the market. 
It may be that a general conviction of the 
large yield now certain, and the large corn 
crop, which will enter largely into consump¬ 
tion, will force itself upon the owners of 
wheat; and that, for a few weeks previous to 
the close of navigation, there will be a large 
influx of grain. If this takes place it will 
in part, and only in part, counteract the evil 
of excessively low prices in the spring. 
It is then a matter of grave consider¬ 
ation with farmers, whether it is not their 
true interest to secure the present price for 
as much of their grain as it is possible to get 
into market while the current prices con¬ 
tinue. We will not take the responsibility 
of advising such a course, but we have given 
above some of the considerations which look 
strongly in that direction. Every one must 
judge for himself. The question is not 
whether the wheat crop, as large as it un¬ 
doubtedly is, would not, if brought into mar¬ 
ket regularly, command remunerative prices. 
The probable European demand, the com¬ 
plete exhaustion of the.country of old wheat, 
and the abundance of money, would secure 
this; but a small supply and high prices for 
a season, to be followed by an over supply 
and very low prices, is what is much to be 
feared. Such §i state of things will benefit 
no one but the speculators ; the consumers 
will be compelled to pay high prices for a 
time which will be counterbalanced by suc¬ 
ceeding low prices, while the producer will 
be the real sufferer. 
The Corn crop promises to exceed by far 
all former crops. At the South the crop is 
safe, in the Middle States nearly so, while 
at the North,though some reports of “late¬ 
ness,” “ backwardness,” &c., come in almost 
every day, such reports end with, “it is 
coming forward finely.” The'price is about 
the same as last week, which is about 25c. 
less per bushel than a few weeks since. 
Oats are unchanged. 
Cotton is about the same, say % to ic. ad¬ 
vance. 
The Weather has generally been moder¬ 
ately warm, with one or two unimportant 
showers of brief duration. Every thing is 
growing with the greatest luxuriance. The 
second crop of grass will exceed the entire 
growth of last year if this weather con¬ 
tinues. 
PRODUCE MARKET. 
Reported Exclusively for the American Agriculturist. 
Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1855. 
The prices given m our reports from week to week, are the 
average wholesale prices obtained by producers, and not those 
at which produce is sold from the market. The variations in 
prices refer chiefly to the quality of the articles. 
The disposition to a decline'in prices still 
continues. In market language, “ Stuff is growing plen- 
tier.” With the exception of Apples, we quote all the 
principal vegetables that are in season at a little lower 
rates. 
Common Potatoes are bringing only 44c. p basket. 
We noticed, on a visit to Flat Lands last week, that the 
vines are generally dead on this portion of Long Island t 
and that farmers are digging them, but hear no complain, 
yet of rot in the market. 
Tomatoes are down to 50c., although this week in their 
prime. The marketmen sav they never were better, and 
they do look luscious enough. 
For some time past reports of an immense growth of 
peaches have been widely circulated. It has been pre¬ 
dicted that they would be so plentiful and cheap that it 
would not pay to bring them to maket. We learn that 
several farmers living a little remote from market have 
not even supplied themselves with baskets. But present 
indications are that these reports have been premature. 
The wet and hot weather has produced an unfavorable 
effect; and from many parts of New-Jersey we hear that 
from one-fourth to one-lialf of the crop has come to ma¬ 
turity too early, and fallen off. Considerable quantities 
of these have been gathered and sent to this market, but 
have not met with a ready sale, owing to their poor quali¬ 
ty. We have had a limited supply of small Delaware 
peaches, and these commanding from 75c. to $1 50 a bush¬ 
el at wholesale. Yesterday there was not enough in 
market to meet the demands of street corner peddlers. 
Good peaches will, without doubt, find ready sale at good 
prices during the whole season. 
Of Pears, the small, green, hard ones are worth almost 
nothing, while the ripe Bells are called for at full prices. 
