Show EXPORT OF PRODUCE A short time before harvest we advised the farmers not to bo be too hasty about disposing of their grain AP and other products vast quantities have however been shipped to various points this exodus of the products of utah has been stimulated by the unusually good round prices paid for it considering the time of the year notwithstanding the apparently high figures paid for products we we still maintain the advisability of holding on to cereals and potatoes one reason for this is that the prospective rates will bo be much higher ant F than those of the present there is money in the matter of holding back besides the necess necessity sit y for or laying u up P I against a probable time of scarcity 91 reports from nearly every slite state in the east tell of scorched clied crops from the excessive heat and drouth we are not dependent for information on this point upon telegraphic intelligence which is not abw always ay S to be en entirely firely relied on ne news s to the same effect comes from reliable private sources among these wa we may mention air david border of kentucky cousin cousin to hon D H peery who recently recently y visited this part of the country and is now again in the east we have been permitted to peruse a letter from him he alludes to the heat of arizona as he had bad heard it described by mr S IL higginbotham and saya says that he be does not think it would compare with what lie experienced at kansas city chicago and other places he lie has lately suited visited at the latter place the thermometer recently stood at at six gix in the evening the letter is dated september ad and nd waa was written at cincinnati and he says that the ohio kiver river which is generally navigable is nearly dried up and navigation entirely lirely en suspended he says i could hot see why utah was shipping such quantities of wheat and potatoes east when I was there but it is now fully explained pla ined the drouth has cutoff both corn and potatoes in kansas missouri illinois and ohio I albo also hear it has extended into kentucky the farmers say they will not get half a crop of corn and will obtain no late potatoes I never saw the like thousands of acres of corn are as dry as tinder bread stuffs are certain to be exceedingly high this statement is made by a reliable gentleman an eyewitness eye witness of what he describes and tells only a small portion of the story simi j t i lar news comes from nearly every part of the country even in fertile california the crop probably docs does not rise above two thirds odthe of the average yield A few months ago the country rejoiced ina glowing glow ing prospect of at least a moderately bountiful harvest harvea throughout but the high hopes of plenty have been dashed to ground by althe the gaunt spectre of measurable bt deficiency there is a moral to all till this utah is signally and specially blessed with an abundant harvest the wise will understand and will not be too ready to part with t the he products of the soil if they must be parted with there will certainly be safety in waiting awhile prices will not take a downward direction |