Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-09-13
Prom the New York cOerisr Enquirer.
Shert Wheat Crop In Europe.


shert Wheat Crop In Europe.
The short wheat crop In Europe Is the leading fact M
the day. is reality Is no longer questionable. In En
gland all accounts concur in representing the wheat crop
estimate that the deficiency will require the i'm
Of the enormous quantity OF sghtes nsas Of quarter.
before the harvest OF 1884, In France which OF lat,
years has been country and which 10,
the three years has furnished England with more wheat
and hour than other country the CROP cacu
lated has fallen OF oneiourh the present year In arr,
sections OF Italy not half crop Is expected Spain com
plains OF deficiency, and Sweden has poor harvest
IN prospect that she is largely importing from the
Baltic IL Is true that other grains particularly barley
oats and rye, have not generally suffered like the wheat
sud Is also true that on the continent the stock of wheat
which secured generally OF superior quality but the
TACT still remains that failure in quantity
OF this staff Of life, there will be scarcity OF food in
Europe.
This matter Of serious Importance commercially no
hncay and socially; and matter in which Americans as
well as Europeans deeply interested. The Govern
ments OF Europe are awake to the coming evil France
mas already materially relaxed her laws which she
heretofore kept stringent. The King OF Naples and
the Pope have prohibited the exhortaon from their do
minlons altogether. Notifications Of tariffs will doubt
less be made by the nations of Western Europe generally
in o'r to increase their supplies But whence foreign
supplies to Gomez The Levant and the United States are
the only extensive wheat exporting regions len The sup.
ply from the former, accpunt OF the want OF OF
inland transmission, Is always limited Our country
must again be the reliance Just in lS4T export
I'd to Great Britain about seventy per cent than
Russia, Turkey, Syria and Egypt combined. IL fortu-
nate that harvest the YEAR in 1876 Is
than ordinary abundance But vet have no such
surplus as will supply the of Europe In lS47
our whole export of wheat and wheat flour to Great
Britain amounted TO less than tro millions OF quar-
tiers; and We told by the Bankers Maya
zine of Londou-though to ourselves confess the
statement appears exravagan-that eighteen millions Of
quarters will be required to meet the deficit Of England
alone. And yet again IL must be remembered that in the
former period of scarcity. other part of Europe
upon On the contrary every whcatpro-
iucing country in Europe excepting Greece and Portugal
had wheat TO and exported less the Brit
sh Isles. Now, of them are in pressing OF IL
themselves France, which in lSiT exported TO England
l19259 quarters, by her lowest calculation
vi" require before the next harvest ore million and half
Ut quarters from abroad. Have surplus that
these demands! Our wheat crop FIR lSi9. accord
ug the of 1850 amounted loo 500 S99 bush
lis. That crop undoubtedly short one and the one
the present year probably thirty per larger
>llOwng the widest possible margin aud assuming our
wheat crop be this year of bushels it will
all amount to less than nineteen ions of quarters That
saw entire crop will amount to less thai the esti.
mated wants OF EnGlanl and Franco alone Aud vet We
must feed people first, and only spare them
the surplus How Europe then according her
'hoWing escape famine!
We apt to look upon our country as an inex-
austibc granary We Judge rather from the fertility of
our best lands than the actual amount OF our pro.
ucts. The average yield Of wheat In England Wales
about tccHty cigh, bushels per acre in France fifteen
ushc; IN the United States, the best wheat fields yield
hry bushels per But though there is this
Inference in the productivcncss there is such differ
cnce in the aggregate product The yearly average OF
the wheat crop in Great Britain and Ireland larger than
hat OF the United States that of France nearly twice
large. And more the inhabitants Of both countries
consume more wheat ia proportion 10 their Habsrs than
he people OF the United States We cultivate and use
other grains much lager Tsy rey mainly up
wheat AMI # their supply OF this u in any
eray reduced we cannot 90 very much towards making
good the deficiency.
England must feel the effect of this True, she was
never prosperous now-hcr capitalists never grow.
ng rich faster her ahorers better paid. But a
-carcity OF food bring distress upon Millions and the
immense payments for foreign shipments Of gain must
lees derauge her financial and monetary affairs
But France i yetmorc deeply concerned Nowhere does
he Of the first of life directly affect
he political contenmcnt of the great Of the PEG.
Ole or tell seriously upon the public securities The
nigh price OF bread in Paris in the winter of lS474S
higher than any time for twenty FIVE previous
at no small influence IN producing the overthrow OF Louis
Philippe. Louis Napoleon perfectly understands this
md ms extraordinary grain operations last year in the
european markets fOrcby show the consequence he
Iches to ow prices lie perhaps more than any other
previous ruler France owes hs success to the
1A aud industrial elements OF the country and in the
degree he i interested in the security and
pty OF these elements. An Illustration Of the easy
ion Of the working classes in Paris is found in
Report by the President OF the savings Bank Of Paris
Shch that the deposits in that institution increased
rom 2jSU5,43l francs in 1851 to 33,7O3,55S francs iu
lS52-tat the highest annual number of deposiors ia
before SIS thirty-ve thousand the mum.
thousand. scarcity OF food that substitute
misery place Of this prosperity, have serious
effect upon the political well the commercial pros
poets Of the country.
The United States Of inutiousy affected by
monetary enolrrassmens in Europe from any cause
5ut the immediate result upon farming interests
throughout the country in this case be favorable
The Of conveyance from every part of our grain
growing regions complete that every farmer
GELS the high prices in Mark Lane almost surely as
nigh prices in his county town. Our producers at
the present time have only large supply but what
tn them Of full much importance the. have large
demand; and, with the two combined they must gain
greatly. \ impulse also will be given to emigration
from Europe to our farming regions Of the West Even
IN the present prosperous year, the tide OF immigration
continue. strong During the last spring qlar
seycntyeight thousand came shores from the
United Kingdom alone, which is the rate of more thar
three hundred thousand yearly. scarcity Of food il
EuroTe must give an immense impulse 20 this tile-m
impulse something like that which augmented our Eu
ropeR immigration from lO2 in 1915 to 23I 1855 il
1917 There TO D. two agencies work scatter
the redundant population Of Europe the world -thC
one diving, the other drawing intermittent tn,
Other coustantb 9TH different and vet both irresistible
We hrnge' and gold. And both Of these agencie-
iva alren y om1ined IN turning ypt ihrong- % on
shores, We have yet 10 these great currents il
al their possible magnitude but if their is auything IL
tie signs OF tie times the day for il TAR distant.