Show business crop anil bricca out of engaged in business in the coultry failed during the last ax months with aggregate liabilities of about fifty millions of dollars tho liabilities amounted to nebout anoro chaa ia the first hill of but tho increase was not enough to any unsound condition ol 01 business j i tho proportion of failure indeed was very small and the loss by bad debts was so slight in with alie volume of business transacted and the number of inns engaged in it that the list dixi months acro really remarkable for business health in 1873 the number of failures was one to every 72 traders in it was ono to every these figures which wo tako from the semiannual semi annual circular of II 11 G don co show that the gloomy apprehensions hen in regard to business which have been so widely entertained of late were not justin cd by alio actual condition of trade during tho year those statistics rather suggest mercantile soundness and lead us to chopo that after tho comparativo inaction of the summer and with the coming of greatly reduced prices for food business will bo both vast in volume and satisfactory so far as concerns profits already a very considerable share of the wheat crop hai been harvested and it is that it will bo n very rich one probably even greater than choso ol 01 the two years preceding 1881 all alic other froias arc promising well tho weather lias favored them and as yet few reports of set bicks to prosperity havo come in A harvest will be as a whole of extraordinary abundance begins to bo confidently expected eliat promises well for business II 11 also indicates tho speedy coming ol 01 prices for food as low as any to we inac been accustomed in tho most plentiful years rvin butchers meat lias already declined somewhat from tho prices of a short time ago and when fall brings in the recently matured stock it must come down to still lower figures cattle been and arc still selling for more per pound live weight alian the dressed meal could bo bought tor at a annily market aut pi is unusually rich year alie cattle of tho west have nol been decimated by a harsh winter and the reported losses of them by hood have probably been exaggerated prices much lower alian those now prevailing need not be expected for tarco months hut in the fall when bour is cheap po arc plenty and articles of food generally are attainable at prices the cattle yards will contain exceptionally line alok numerous enough to bring their cost down to mo deratt figure A Y sun |