Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-31
HARVEST PROSPECTS.

sEONDoNy aug 10
The harvest is the most engrossng home subject.
The weather has been fine and warm during the last
ten days. and the upward movement in prices has
received a check. Reaping has commenced in the
earliest districts, the general impression still remains
that the wheat crop will be materially below aver
age. 'The opinion of competent judges, says the
Mark Lane Express is that the production will prove
the &c smallest that has been harvested since 1916;
The potato disease exists but does not spread rapid
IT, The Mark Lane Express adds:
1.-THE present prices, though about los. per or.
higher than the average since the abolition of the
laws, moderate; under existing circumstan-
ces, which may be thus enumerated. A deficient
wheat harvest in Great Britain and France failure
of that crop in several of the southern countries of
Europe; short stocks every where except in Ameri-
ca; and last, though not least imminent danger of
the Quarrel between Russia and Turkey leading to
war in which England and France may become in
volved. Such being the position of affairs can
scarcely expect that the languor by which the grain
has been characterized the last few days will be of
long duration"
The Liverpool Mercury says:
s'From Ireland we have cheering accounts of the
but it is admitted that in some parts of Corke Kerry
and Clare the disease has attacked the stalks although
the tubers yet perfectly sound. lrelands main
difficulty is now want of labor. The high wages
of England have attracted the Irish peasantry hher
in such large numbers that it is said to be difficult to
procure day laborer on any terms in some parts OF
the sister island and the want, it is feared will be
much more severely felt when harvest time comes.
LeLCerS from ABROAD SCaCe CnaC the Wheat crop Ill
the neghborhood of Dantzic is affected by blight and
mildew and that the result of the harvest is not
pected to be favorable Kongsberg letters say that the
growing grain crops not progressing favorably,
and that potatoes had been rather extensively attack
ed by disease. Stocks of wheat very much re-
duced at Stettn and at Rostock the quantity hand
was very trifing In the Dutch market the tenden-
cy of prices continues upwards, and there are SINH
lar accounts from Belgium The statements from the
south of France that the crop is beloN aver
age. In some districts the deficiency is estimated at
one-fourth and in others still more The accounts
from the south of Europe speak most deplorably of
the harvest, and in the Italian States the value of
wheat has risen to almost famine prices. The export of
grain has been prohibited from Naples and Sicily and
from the Papal States. From the distant ports
on the Black Sea- we learn that lively demand has
been experienced for wheat on French and Italian
count and at Galatz Odessa, &C. both wheat and In
dian corn had considerably advanced in price.
We shall offer no apology for this long account of
the prospect of the harvest and the market 1t
is of equal consequence to the consumers in Europe
and the yielders Of supplies in America; for to you
and to Canada must the nations the side of the
Atlantic look for such supplies may be necessary
We gather information from the best printed state
ments, and from experienced persons in one of the
principal agricultural districts in England. We are
much surprised to find from Canada paper, that the
wheat exported from that country has increased from
296 O2O bushels in 1888 to 1896 us bushels in 1882
very nearly half as mush imported from the
United States in 1851.
London Cor: Of the Nat: INTEL