The Farm

The front liuve at last come and the uneasiness about the wheat lly and the excesslve growth of wheat, which was feit in some loralities, is at an end. A gentleman who has travelled extensively through the southern counties of the State and eonversed with farr..ers during the jiast two weeks, assuics us that the damage from either cause, is not great and that the prospect for the next wheat Jiarvest is as goodas it ordinarily is at this season oftheyear. This is cheering news, ao far as it goes, and we are inclined to believe ittrue of other sections of the State. W' i t li a good or average erop of wheat in 1880, Michigan farmers can bount themselves excejitioiuilly fortunate. The last two crops have been unoxpectedly good and present prices likelihood of their becoming less so. The general revival In business, so lona and anxiously awaited.ia certainly here. Tlie rapfd advance in the priee of lumber and salt must bring millions of dollars'iuto Michigan, soon to (ml its way intothe hands of nianufacturers, inechanics and day laboréis, and through tliem into'the hands of the farmers in ïeturaforlheir pro(liutts. The iron market which is oui best business barometer, has not shown sucli buoyancy for years. All the foundries, fumaces, rolling and nail and other iron milis are in f uil blast, working with an iccreased force, and day and night, andarestill farbehind their orders. The sudden change from letliargy to activity ariïong the iron miftiuf acturers, is most reniarkable, and such has been the advance, in priees and the great derhand for the product, that Bnglarid whfeh for several years has been driven out of our markets is again a eompetitor. The eopper mines are also showing greater activity than for years and are attractie g labor and capital to the Upper Península and crealing there an improved home market forthe farmer. It is, of course, a matter of con ture what the future inarketof farm producís will be, :i question whicli people are apt to answer with pasitiveness in proportion to their ignorance; still it needs no prophet to see tliat with the increase of trade and manufactures, agrieulture must prosper with the rest Clear headed dealers wIhi hHve been In the ma kets all their lives and made them a cc istant studj, give it as their opinión ü'at the price of' wheat will continue togradually advanee, and that we need not expert any falHng off until after another harvest Corn also feels the effect of the European demand, and the advance in price is almost as nnuked as that upon Wheat, and tliis in turn affects the price of pork and lard, both of wlüch have materially advanced. Buttx r and cheese have alsord vaneed wilhin a sTiOit Linie. Uic róïmêr trom six to eight cents per pound and the latter nearly "■" per cent, lïeef and muttop sommand aready sale and tliouh the prices are still low, a steady and permanent advanee is quite probable. Everything produced upon the farm s uow salabit! at some price and in nearly every inslance at a more reñkinerative price, all thhigs considered, than at any time since the panic. Ainong the other enterprises which must ailect favorably the prospenty oí Michigan in the immediate future shouid be mentioned the cerfcain building of: the Marquette and Mackinaw Railroad and the extensión of the Grand Rápida and Indiana and the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw roads northward to the Straits. Northern Michigan is fast iilling up with a good class of settlers, and tlie next iive years will witness a wonderful transformation from w'nat but a few year.s ging? wniJ&tiïinL SuAVnYeV" win"'witnesa a rapid increase in the tide oc immigration already setting in that diviction. Li ever the farmer and settler f] t as though he could safely go on rtearing land and making improvenents, trusting to a prosperous future to bring himout even, now is the time. Je sliould learn Ly experience, howcver, and notmakedrafts on the future lashly. There will be atendencyas noney grows plen tier, to indulge again in the needle8fl extravagance of wliich be hard times deprived him and from whichthey ought to have weaned him. Let him liasten slowly. The prospect is luiglit but let 110 one be dazzled by ;t.