New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-26
IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE.

win have 70 buy ht least noooo0oo worth Of wheat In
,..4. o. IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE.
DEFICIENT CROP OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES MEG
EssITY OF DRAWING SUPPLIES IRON AMERICA.
IFRou THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TRE raisUEkl
BERLIN, Oct. a.-The unusually late harvest
this year renders II extremely difficult 70 arrive now even
Of an approximate estimate Of the Yield Inc I uu'n
this year viii psrhaps not DO known before Christmas
The rapid changes and local diyerstes Of the weather.
by which the growth Of grain has been innuenced nave
led to excellent crops often being fonnd ~ the Sae VI
total failures not merely In Germany, but almost oyer
the whole extept Of the continent OF Europe From e
reports hitherto received At this principal market VII"
however appear that crops Of wheat IS well % OF
ryethese two staple articles Of food for the masses IN
Europe-hsye been insufficient in face OF mo
regular demand OF the Prussiau provinces, It
10, only Prussia proper, according TO trustworthy
information Of which am In possession from Dsnc ana
K6nigsherg, that boast OF perfectly satisfactory
reant Of agricultural labor Pomerania, PoseD, and
sesia where the splendid crops Of straw had raised
very sanRuine hopes at all events have not seen their
expectations fully realized after thrashipg. Further
west the yield has been stu smaller very moderate In
deed In Brandenburg; while saxOny, Hanover, West-
phalla and the Rhineland have had TO confess com
pete failure Of their hopes and have already inundated
the Berlin market with purchasng orders Westphala
and Rhneland In particular have thrashed 40 per cent
ports yet only from the northern parts chiefly from
the Baltic Provinces. The crops Of wheat well Of
rye there have given rise to complaints, and fur
Their east the harvest does not have been much
better. It has been observed now, for series of
years. that the cold Is increasing in the northern
part Of European Russia and the harvess Of wheat in
particular are suffering from 1t. Finland, OF
the granares supplying the commerce Of the German
commercial Of the Baltic now almost struck out
from the list Of grain-exportinR countries On the
trary has been suffering repeatedly from famnes and
the Russian Government have thought 1t necessary
already exhort the people Of Finland to turn from
agriculture in time to other occupations.
In Sweden Norway and Denmark the yield Of the
crops has been somewhat better than expected but
these countries rarely In position to export ana Dut
too often obliged to draw Northern Germany ana
Poland 1t is therefore likely that with the msui-
cient wheat of England and the still less salts
factory one Of France, where the yield Of wheat Is
estimated at 80 per cent less than the
average the exporting powers Of the countries round
the Baltic will be exhausted II they come In play at
all, and that the countries round the BLACK sea ana
America will have to make up the deficiency II they cam
The crops OF barley In the north Of Germany In Branden
burg and Prussan SaxOny have not been so deficient
quantity as quality In vain did the brewers wait for
stocks coming to market for brewing purposes. Inc
native barley is mostly only good for feeding horses
somewhat better article has been growing In the neigh
boring Austrian provinces Bohemia and Moravia, and Is
what the German brewers at present have fallen back
upon in order to supply their greatly increasing
and highly profitable trade. But all the reports
from Hungary agree that a splendid barley crop has
been taken from the rich soil Of that country particularly
from the North and that the Of transportation
BIZ sufficient, which they vet are by no means, Hun
gary could supply brewers with barley to any amount
II is the crop of oats alone to which the peculiar state OF
the weather has favorable In the north OF Germany
The supply the Berlin market has already been enor-
n o,HH olinaf which
they are but slowly recovering The North German
potato CROP the importance Of which, for more than one
reason felt beyond the frontiers Is OF very pecu
liar character The potatoes are, as 1t would seem quite
universally extremely small In size smaller than they
have ever been known before, but they are rich In
starch 1t ought observed that the plants suffered
from blight without further injury to the fruit however,
than this unusual smalness of size. Being accom-
panied by this strange richness in starch the Pc
culiarity Of this years crop renders the North
German potatoes than ever appropriate for dls
the excise On spirits is not calculated by the amount Of
alcohol yielded, but by the capacity OF the sun IL
tivity Of the Prussan disers now the largest export
Of sprit in the world viii absorb greater part than
ever Of vegetable. This together with the smaness
size, must diminish the supply OF potatoes Tor eating
purposes as substitute for wheat ana rye mus Hs
curtaed, while the rapidly increasing expectation
sprts-n 1869 than 100000 gallons OF spirits
Of 50 per cent expOred-wn probably restore the
The crops of oieaginous pantsrapeseed and linseed
have been decidedly good, and prices are declining:
The decline seems even TO have affected those OF
petroleum and paraffne. II we follow the history Of
European haryests WHOLE and compare 1t to the
81 mt of rss Of h standard OF & inn
possible not that the time is fast approaching
when the economical system of Great Britain will affect
that OF tn whole Of the Old World That country will
have to be supplied with food by others Holland,
Belgium France have followed in becoming food inn
porting countries and Germany has ceased more
and more to be exporting one. The va
leys of the Dnester, the Dniper, and the Don
are still feeding people that far of But all these
tracts Of suffering from uncertain harvests and
IL is want Of capital only which yet prevents them
from covering the deficiency Of year with the abunG
ance the other. They endangering themselves by
their exporaton which in the OF Northern Russia,
with its population less fertile SOIL aud deteror-
ating climate, Is and more becoming the exception
instead OF the rule