es. But the cotton, rice, and sugar
states, like the manufacturing states of New England, will not soon,
if ever, add much to the supply of wheat; the rich staples of the
former, and the varied husbandry and grazing of the latter, suited
to supply the immediate wants of a manufacturing population, will be
likely to receive their attention in preference.

Kentucky and Tennessee, though their agricultural history dates back
beyond the settlement of the north-western states, have already been
out-stripped by at least two of them. In neither of these states has
the culture of wheat ever been put forward, and regarded as one of
their best staples, or as very favorably adapted to their soil and
climate. Still, notwithstanding the formidable danger from rust, the
production of Tennessee is estimated to be equal to nine bushels to
each person, and Kentucky about seven and a half bushels. Missouri
may be classed with Kentucky and Tennessee, which she much resembles
in soil, climate, and productions, except that she raises much less
wheat than either, her crop being placed by the Commissioner of
Patents at only two millions, or less than four bushels to each
resident of the state. But, besides that the experience of the past
discourages the idea that these fine states are likely to become
great wheat-producing states, the fact that the staple of cotton may
be cultivated over a considerable portion of one of them, and that
hemp and tobacco are among the valuable products of the other two;
that Tennessee is the very largest corn-producing state in the
Union, showing her soil and climate are particularly adapted to this
description of grain, and that Kentucky and Missouri are unsurpassed
as grazing countries, and there is little ground to suppose that any
change in their husbandry will very greatly or suddenly augment the
production of wheat. Let us come now to the States of Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, and that _fabulous_ wheat district or
territory to the west of these again, from which, according to the
vaticinations of some, may be drawn supplies of wheat to feed the
population of both Europe and America, or fill warehouses that would
sustain our people through a longer famine than that which afflicted
the people of Egypt! I cannot help thinking that, to some extent,
this generally