BRITISH AGRICULTURE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1849, 26 January 1880, Page 3

BRITISH AGRICULTURE.

The New York “ Tribune” writes as follows on the agricultural situation in Great Britain:— “ The anomaly of the English agricultural situation consists in the fact that with almost unprecedented failure in yield comes an extraordinary decline in price. The law of supply and demand works advance of price proportioned to decline s-f production. But free trade and steam power are levelers, adding to the meagre garner of Britain the lavish product of interior America, and leaving her grain-growers in the condition of a farmer whose field hoe been swept by a flood while those of his neighbors are •waving with abundance. Virtually, in these days, the wheat products of the nations are • pooled’ in one grand crop. Now it is the turn of British and French farmers to suffer. liet the season be again propitious, and full erops of grain be harvested on that side of the Atlantic, and the turn will come to our farmers, who may mourn over largo crops sold at less than cost. Yearly repeated reports of ‘ a large increase of wheat acreage’ are pointing inevitably to that result, which is as likely to occur in 1880 as at any later date. It is a long lane of success in which the American grower has been travelling, and he may have come to think that it has no turn,”