The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-10-05
NEW YORK. MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5, 1916

average crop" there is not the slightest reason for
of the ensuing wear Prcss have already from
S. to los aquarter compared with their lowest point
few weeks ago; yet this advance has not" SAYS our
agricultural contemporary, hitherto had the effect of
dTaving supplies" In fact the weekly amount Of arri
walls cosswise has diminished instead OF increasing not
whstandng this application OF stimulant that rarely
fails at this perio of the year With regard to those
ferior grains which we usually look to collateral
of supply, and which naturally present them.
selves the reaaies available substitute the potato
the prospect far more gloomy In place of the
secondary crops exhibited last year. have this year
marked deficiency Barley, ADMITTED all hands 10 fail
probably more than hafa CROP; and peas equal
ly short" Such is the summary given by this highly
se ana
of the potaoeatng portion Of population
is needless to sunon our eonts~porarys inference
wheat gradually declining in the Of few weeks
to the minimum rate of four shillings
does not, ho1eUer, by any means foiioW that this
wfH insure US supply Che harvest just secured having
prored more or less dsetire oper nearly he phole Of
conclusion sufficiently well ascertaned to jus
tfy the fullest extent the anxiety which is calcutta
ted excite In every market in Europe in France
Belgium Germany, the Baltic and the Mediterranean
prices have already rsen lin instances above the
level of OWN only in consequence of antic
pated demand but the direct result of home scarcity
There is general exhaustion Of the stocks of old crops
pie Of those countries unusually dependent on this years
scanty supplies A very extensive failure Of the rye
CROP which, in ordinary years constitutes the chief de.
Europe forms another most serious element of
adehcency and has already necesstated large mpora
tons Of wheat into some parts Of Germany France
every one knows, has for time past been large
purchaser of bonded corn and has bought
goes of our home growing wheat In short the United
States by universal consent the only quarter to
which look for any considerable supplies between
and next harvest aud although the both Of
wheat and Indian corn in that country have this year
been very abundant, general European competition for
the exportabe surplus will greatly abridge its available
to ourselves.
Our well informed and pains taking contemporary, the
Economist strikingy ccrroborates the effect Of the
tutes a peculiarly important element Of the general
question Of the existing relations between our national
demand and supply. While our contemporary confident
ly estimates the british wheat harvest of this year
being Considerably larger and better than that Of 1885,
he reminds that last years deficiency was to great
extent compensated by the very large unexhausted
plus of the extraordinarily abundant crop of ls44
which such that, in all probability, there was
larger amount Of in this country the LIST of Sep
tember ls.o than on any previous LIST Of September
Outstanding resources There Is no unconsumed residue
Of past abundance to fall back upon The official stats
which the weekly averages are struck, show falling
of in the amount Of wheat brought to market during
the first eight months of this year. compared with the
corresponding eight months Of last year which-espe
cialy considering the stimulus to forced salesaforded
BY proteetonist prophecies Of 'inuDdatonIcan only
stocks in the farmers hands The figures for the last
month of each period particularly significant In
market by our farmers in August, 1885, only 4247O6
quarters Our contemporaries conclusion is, we fear
September 1885, the stocks Of old Hhea wers larger than
they probably had been former year, the same
Th Of this demand on this
years supply assumes more serious aspect when is
further remembered that owing to the comparative ear
the wheat, in point of quality for immediate use, the
consumption of the harvest ofls.6 has commenced many
weeks sooner than that of its predecessor.
without any desire to adopt needlessly an alarmist
tome We have thought right to place these facts and
desirable that the country should be distinctly cognzan
of circumstances 80 essentially affecting the we'll being
all classes Of the and tho interests and
prosp cts sf every branch of commerce and industry
Whether the consideration Of actual state and
any stronger i%psss:on on the and the pub
lc than lively satisfaction in rejecting on those egs
po we hsve mo-
hasty opinion. The present comparatively in.
cornaw enacted under circumstances that
certainly predspose prudent Of all classes and
parties endeavor to acquiescs in the terms of settle
men which presents so very much Of substantial good,
temporary evil At the same time, we feel that the
country cannot be early famliarissd with facts
calm confederation Of the question whether it is on the
whole desirable and fitting that we should continue to
any the smallest extent the policy OF Eyng 70 our com
| over ourselves.
[From the Paris Constitutional, Sept. l6]
Although we have not seen the official returns the
of France leaves doubt as to the inadequacy Of the
crops generally II appears from the estimates pub
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say anything dspeasng its masters that in the south
and the inferior to that of last year and
almost deficient in 1899; that in small number Of
the northern departments exceeds the consumption
and that in the central and southern departments the
crops have altogether failed We may add that vege
tables have been little abundant in consequence Of the
drought and that potatoes have failed in several local.
almost everywhere Last year at this period the price
of wheat varied in markets from 30 to "a francs per
hectore this year varies from % to 3D. which would
indicate augmentation Of from 20 to % per
cent In Paris the price of bread had risen during the
second fortnight of September from 80 to Al confines per
kilogramme 1t had reached nearly the same rate a,
RoueH, and in the principal towns of Normandy. II
sold for a confines Lille and still higher in Lorraine
and Alsace where its price ~ confines at strasburg
50 at Nancy, and 60 at Colmar"
The Foreign Corn Trade.
| From the Mark Lane Express, Sept Ii
The harvest may be considered as concluded little
grain any description remaining in the fields
in the most backward parts of the kingdom As yet but
few estimates of the result have been offered public at
tenton having been much taken up with the potato
disease and lis probable consequence as to cast into
the shade all other matters Under these circum-
stances has been extremely difficult to obtain accurate
information relative to the yield Of the different grain
crops, and not in position to offer very de-
what we have hitherto been enabled to collect we are
strongly inclined to believe that the produce Of Dheaf
H prove less to the acre than cas expected precious
10 the commencement of harvest The deficiency in
quantity in measure be made good by the supe
riofy Of the quality and the great weisht Of the grain
question wheher the yield ,oH ereeed that of average
seasons. This though not rery favorable rieu,
ma 5%~ eiS 70 Cheat that hat sry which l.
oil hands TO faU materially short The deficiency IN the
p@d"ss s"r,s out s srs Is N an IN
TO the extreme heat and the rant Of moisture
during the greater part Of The summer uere .reesdngiy
SOIL the yield Is lighter than that Of barley Beans
probably. not than haya e,oP and peas hare
hay chch is abundant ondcf srceent quality the gross
amount Of food raised in Great Britain for and
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