Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-24
! The Crops i'm Europa.


A New York merchant writes under a
late date that mail advices from England
indicate that the present crop Is full aver.
age, and that English farmers are pushing
forward deliveries which are perfectly sound
and dry" The Courier des EtGts Enis
which has peculiar advantages in obtain
ing information, reports that the wheat
crop Of France Is much lsrger the present
than last year. On the other hand the
London Times takes the following view:
Until full and detailed reports are laid
before us-which can only be the result of
an elaborate collection of opinions from the
growers themselves-we anticipate soms-
thing like an average yield of wheat as the
due effect of glorious season upon de-
fective plant And when we say AN aver
age We mean so, the term signifying q
moderate crop; halt way between the full
yield of some years and the failing pro-
duce of others; and not the very nice crop,
just short of being excessive, which some
farmers call IAN average. Barley, we fear,
is in much the same case as
wheat. Oats, we expect, will be oonsid-
erably below an average. Peas may be an
average; beans must be very much under
an average. The principal deduction from
the history of the crop and the season is
that we are reaping in England q moderate
yield of wheat. Harvesting is well forward,
and thrashing is busily proceeding in the
principal corn growing districts of that
country. In portions Of the southwest, on
the Swiss frontier, in the basin Of the
Garonne, in parts of Normandy, Bsauce,
Brie and other northern departments, the
wheat is abundant and of fine quality. But
in the remainder of France, excepting fa-
vorable spots, the harvest is deficient, and
bad yield partly compensated for BY good
quality. As Italy, Spain, Belgium, .Hol-.
land, North and South Germany, Poland,
the Danubian provinces and Russia have
also suffered, though in varying degrees,
from the same causes which have afflicted
England and France, it is not surprising
that i'll reports of the harvest arrive from
those countries" aso -e IVA %.
The London correspondent of the New
York Commercial and Financial CRr0nt-
Gle writes under date of Aug as follows:
Great efforts have been made to raise the
price of breadstuffs this week, but they
have been only pa tally successful. The
weather has been fine for harvest work, the
showers Of rain which have fallen being
calculated to swell the grain without, in any
way, injuring it. A large breadth of land
has been cut, and the produce isnow being
rapidly stacked. Owing to the shortness
of the stem-the result of dry season
the stacks may look smaller than usual, but
with regard to the amount of wheat pro-
duced, it is the opinion that it is about an
average. The wheat sent to market up to
the present time has, in most respects,
been of fine quality, and it is probable that
unless there should be a prospect of the
war becoming more complicated, many
persons will be induced to sell at present
prices. Wheat is now at good, but not
extravagant, price.-A considerable ad-
vance has taken place during the last three
months, but it commenced at point which
was much below the ordinary level, and
even at the present time it is only Is Sd per
quarter dearer than in 1862 According to
the official returns, the average quotation
for English wheat in England and Wales is
only 25s 16d against 51s Cd last year, els
Id in 1868, 67s sd in 1867, and 5ls Id in
1866. 1t will be seen, therefore, that the
war has not yet had the effect of making
wheat dear, but of raising it to point at
which we are more likely to secure large
supplies from abroad.