Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-06
time. Rye was good crop in quantity and

time. Rye was a good crop in quantity and
quality.
Betgttm-5 TO 10 per cen. larger breadth of
land sown to wheat. Yield above an average;
quality various Some localities suffered from
Vet during harvest time. Rye good and bar
ley poor crop.
Stcuzeldnd-Crops suffered in some few
districts III August from storms, foundations,
and hale, but, on the whole not uusatistac-
tory.
Germany Wheat, in quantity about an
average but deficient in quality, owing TO
smut Rye, not an average in quantity, or
quality. Central Germany-Wheat, moder-
ate average yield; quality, on the whole, toll
erably good. Rye, short crop, largely plowed
up, aud barley put III its place. Berlin Dis
Wheat, pretty good crop, but rye not
satisfactory. Tllsit and Meml Districts
Crops in general satisfactory koenissberG
Dstricts-Wheat, excellent yield in quantity,
quality and weight. Rye somewhat deficient
IN yield and quality. Suffered from rust.
Danzig District-Wheat, good yield; quality,
weight, and color satisfactory, except some
few localities were rust and smut are preva-
lent. Prussian Poland Dstricts-Wheat, detici-
ent "a per cant, and rye Al per cent deficient,
Silesian Districts Wheat, far yield, but quail
ity not sstl sfactory; damaged by mlidew Up
pen Pomeranian Distrlcts-W Wheat snort Of an
average; quality various; much shrivelled
grain IN consequence OF blight and rust.
Mechlcnburg Dlsrlcts-Nheat suffered Sc
rously from blight ana rust. Lubbock Districts
Wheat suffered in June from rust: quantity
full average; quality and color satisfactory.
Rye not an average in quantity or quality.
Hamburg DIS riots Wheat,o the whole above
an average yield; quality and condition seldom
better. Holstem and Scheswig Districts
Wheat, satisfactory yield; quality various.
Bremen and Oldengurg-Wheat fall average;
s to 10 per cent greater than 1871 crop.
Spain aud POrtugdl-Full average crop OF
good quality OF wheat.
UGLy-North IN Department deficient and
requires considerable imports
Hungary Wheat deficient, and viii require
to import rather than export.
R,tssio-Both North and South had a de-
fcent wheat harvest, and Baltic and A2ov
porls were 10,0O0,OoG bu short during the
navigation season Of 1872. Exports and
stocks small at Odessa, IaganrOg, and Ros-
toff.
Eqypt-Will have only moderate surplus for
export.
Australia-Is expected to have considerable
surplus wheat for export.
Uenmdrk-Full average wheat crop; quality
good, though IN some localities there was
damage by rust. Weight SO and G2 ibs; color
good.
AUSTRIA and her Provinces The Upper and
Lower Provinces had only mlddhng crops,
damaged DIV drought anu 1DIlutN. DuI NIthl
was the best among the cereal crops. In Gal
licia and Buckewiaa wheat was very deficient.
Rye mnch worse; both damaged by rust and
blight. Galiacia Will require 10 import rye
from Moravia, Silesia, and StoItin. In Bo-
hcmia and Moravia wheat was about an aver
age In Hungary, only per cent. good, %
per cent. middling, 80 ner cent bad, out of
! 1,032 reports of the condition f the crop. Rye
! deficient. but very much better than wheat
! In Moldavia and Wallachic wheat suffered
more less from drought, which st II IN May
and lasted over blooming time In Moldayla
sixteen districts produced 232, 602, 80 litres of
wheat of which Ii, 67S, COS hters can be export
ed. Wallachia produced 29i 100000 lltres OF
wheat of which 97,0O0, 900 can be exported.
The crop in Algeria was better than in 1871
in quantity and quality.
France has imported at MarseI.as snce
Aug l, 1872, 1,2l7G00 metrcal quiutals of
wheat of 2201a lbs EACH against 2 ,6T. $50 me-
trical quntals of wheat for the corresponding
time in 1871. The exports from France since
bus; and. retaining prudent normal stocks,
abiding the result of the harvest Of 1873, may
have $4,000, 900 bus Of wheat for export, to be
divided between Belgium, Holland, Switzer-
land, and the United Kingdom Belgium us
uaily imports from twelve to fifteen million
bus of wheat.
| The foregoing gives a cursory view OF the
condition OF the wheat crop throughout the
wheat producing countries Of the world.
The following will show from what countries
! the United Kingdom procured her supplies,
from Jan. l to Aug. 81, tor the three years: