The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-24

crops. consumption and surplus, of-the
l4rest ofs theswoGl17 yssiis. based ssupons nsss
evidence which he adduces OF refers to
or that issknoEn tpsexist. HE simply
asserts that Judging from all accepted
present estimates, the United States,
Russia, Hungary, Germany. France
and Turkey will have an aggregate sur
| plus Of 88,0O0,O0O bushels of wheat
| INDUSTRIOUS ERRORS.
1t is needless to point out the many
mounstrous errors in this sweeping ipse
di.rit. Two will suffice. As to thS
United States, how can Mr.. Kains-
jackson know the ssaccerted present
estimate" of the wheat crop Of this
| country when we don't know it our
selves? The Monthly Agricultural
Report for July, 1874, gives the aver
age condition of winter wheat at lO4
and Of spring wheat at 90:
but who can tell 20
definitely as Mr.. Kains-J ackson
pretends what our accepted average
crop is, or still less how much the sur
plus will be! The census of 1870
showed wheat crop Of 288,OOO, 600.
bushels, but the annual agricultural re-.
port of the same year. gave but 1885,
100000 bushels, while the reports
of 1871 and 1872, although the popula-
ton and culture had meanwhile largely
increased, gave but 23l,OOO.OOO and
$50, 100000 bushels respectively, and
that of 1873 is this day refused to be
communicated to the public by the
/ Commissioner.
Ordinary finocular vision is no cir
cumstance to Mr.. Kains-J jackson S in
sight into the contradictory and sup
pressed statistics of our rather dynam-
ical than statistical wheat culture.
+ With reference to Turkey, Mr..
Kains-Jackson. in his eagerness SEEM
lngiy to 'sbear'' the London grain mar
ke;, appears to have forgotten the terri
bic famine which is now desolating that
country. But if Mr.. jackson forgot it
the London Times did not, for the yerv
next day after it printed his letter, il
pu blished ON account from Constantine
pie which set forth that from 5000 to
10000 people had persisted from star.
vation in Angora and other parts Of
Anatoia that the distress still con-
tinued; and that, according to MIR.
Farnsworth, an American missiona y,
who had recently visited the neighbor-
hood, there will be no bread crops this.
year, the wretched inhabitants not hay
ing possessed seed wherewith to SOW
the earth. This condition of affairs
bespeaks strange sort CT s'exportable
wheat surplus in Turkey this year.
| BRITISH AUTHORITIES ENDEAvORLNa TO DE-
PRESS THE MARKET.
have now done with Mr.. Kains-
jackson and his conjectures of wheat
crops and prices, and have only to re-
mark that it would be truly a grievous
thing ifthe tissue Of probabilities which.
appear over his name, and are based
uron an evidently exaggerated estimate
of this years British wheat crop, and
otherwise merely wild guesscs as to the.
American and some other crops, were
permitted to influence our markets for
cereals.
! 1t is very natural that Mr.. jackson,
| who is an Englishman, should wish his
country to be the gamer of the $65, O0O,-
} 600 which he rather confidently con-
cludes will be the value Of the differences
between the ensuing and the last year.
] purchases Of wheat for British account
in this country; but it is not at all de-
4 sirable that through an entirely mis-
| taken Endorsement of Mr.. Jackson's
supposed unimpeachability, our hard
working farmers and our country should
lose this vast sum fer lack Of a timely
examination Of the gentleman's claims
;. to ingenuousness, verscity, and good
judgment. ALEX DEIMAR,
, Late Director Of the Bureau of Statis-
4 tics.
II ~The census Of 1870 should have
showed the crop Of 1859, but a. the
taking of the census was spread over
eight months Of time, and extended far
into the year 1871, ths agricultural in
FORMATION obtained by the marshala
related mainly to the harvest yelp
1901. See remarks to this effect IN
. the compendium to the census Of 1870.
ipage 60l 2. The Annual Agricultural
! report Of 1871, page 20, says that the
census returns Of sheep are manifest
" incomplete" and leaves the reader
,, to infer that this is the fact in other re-
spects relating to agriculture; but il
true - to wheat this would make the
crop more than the census stated It.
and not less, Is the commissioner o1
Agriculture estimates it.
Il "A small Lanarkshire laird VA
much respected by his neighbors, and
, also was very eccentric in his hsbita
and conduct. No job, grest or snsll,
could be done to his satisfaction unlene
he personally superintendent it, and Il
he had occasion to ssturn his back. .
even for minute, when work was goine
on, he was sure to see that scmethin1
had gone wrong in the brief interval,
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