The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1872-11-13
The American Grain Product and tho
Foreign Demand.

Foreign Demand.
The New York Commercial Bull
etin says the October returns of the
Department of Agriculture contain
approximate and probably correct
estimates of the harvest products of
the United States for the present
year. The products are very varia-
BILE, some States making the largest
crop ever known, while others make
the smallest. The average of the
New England States is barely main
/ tanned. The central line of wheat
| production continues to move farther
West, the line being now in Illinois
and Wisconsin. The quality of the
wheat is better this year than last.
! The Southern States have increased
their production from 100000 to
/ 27,000,000 bushels, and in California
the increase is 75per cent. Returns
from counties representing a large
proportion of the wheat of each
! State indicate an increase of five per
cent. over the product Of last year,
which was estimated at 230,00O,000
bushels. 1t is probable the compile
ted estimate will not fall short of
240, 100000 bushels, upon an area
of little less than 20,00O,O0 acres.
This will make a yield of between
twelve and thirteen bushels an acre,
which may be considered an average
of the United States. The increase
in the States west of the Missis-
sippi appears to be about 100000
bushels, or in comparison to last
years product eighty-fve million to
seventy million bushels.
In respect to corn. the crop prom
ises to be the largest ever known.
Only five States show less than an
average per centage. In all the
others there is an increased average
of from to "a per cent. As the
crop last year was very large, a con
siderable portion of it holding over,
it will be seen that the corn surplus
will be unusually heavy. In oats
there is a slight increase of 3 per
cent, but the total product is estima-
ted at not more than 265,OOO,OOO
bushels. Barley shows a falling of,
if anything, as compared with last
year, in regard to both quality and
quantity. The rye crop is also es-
timated as below last years yield,
the reduction being about ? per cent
The report, on the whole, may be
regarded as satisfactory. and in
many respects better than was an
ticipated. 1t shows, contrary to pre-
vious accounts, that the supply Of
wheat is somewhat in excess of last
years yield, while the quality is bet
ter. And. as regards corn, the pro-
duct is beyond all precedent. Ma
king all allowance for the increased |
home consumption, there will be no
diminution in the supplies available
for expectation, as compared with |
the preceding year. The large corn
crop indicates a continued increase
in the hog crop, which is now coming
to be justly regarded as offering the
most available and profitable dispos-
ition that can be made of that pro-
duct. AS the improvement in the
quality of our wheat is equivalent to
an increase of production, the fears
that were entertained of falling off
in our expectations during the cur
rent grain year may be dismissed as
groundless. We are likely, if any /
thing, to be able to spare a little
larger surplus. And England will
require all the cereals we can spare
and all that we can obtain tonnage
to transport. The wheat harvest in
that country is below the average of
last year in quantity and still more
20 as to quality. Great Britain will
therefore be compelled to increase
,ery largely her purchases of food !
rom foreign countries. The money /
-alue of the deficiency is variously !
at from S5O,000.00O to
vice and even three times that !
mount. But whatever it may be, s
t is quite certain that the United t
states will be required to supply a {
arge proportion, so that We may :
ook for very large and active for c
IGN breadstuffs trade. This view '
; also sustained by the fact that the s
7heat supplies from Russia, whence j
England for the last few years has c
rawn the bulk Of her importations, h
re likely 10 be less than usual t
wing to the unfavorable harvest in k
ONE Of the more important grain e
reducing district Of that vast en- t
ire. The supplies for Taguarog, y
le Sea Of Azof and the Black Sea v