The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-29
English Crops.

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Express in its usual weekly review OF
the British corn trade, says: THE weath
er has been very unsettled the past week,
and farmers have been considerably de-
isyed Ia stacking and threshing wheat,
although cutting has been carried on
without much interruption. Sunshine Il
now wanted to harden the grain and
check the tendency To sproutIng. The
thunderstoTms in Midland county, refer
red to last week, did u good deal OF dam
age, but it Is considered tnat the
yield of wheat on few lands will
be about the average Reports vary re-
garding barley and oats, but the crops
are much improved With fair spell
OF dry weather they would be ready tor
reaping next week. In Scotland cereals
are making unusually slow progress, IN.
der the relarding influence OF wet wealth
or, but appearances indicate tar yield
of grain, although OF inferior quality,
while there is also good promise Of
abundant straw. Root crops have been
benefited by the RAIN and turnips and
mangels promise well Complaints OF po.
tato disease. Agricultural returns show
that the area planted with wheat this
year is about 3l68,OOO acres. This is
about 5000 acres IN excess of last year
but about the same quantity less than
1915. II appears that, compared with
last year. barley and oats have been
sown upon H slightly diminished area
The prosecution ot the harvest work hiss
so entirely engaged the farmers lately
that there has been vcrv little business
in the country markets, but where sales
are made the prices Indicate fall of one
shilling per quarter on whest since last
Monday Sample lots OF grain offered
AZ provincial exchanges have been bad,
but the condition OF n majority Of
the sample offered ut Marx
Lane on Monday wa. toIer-
ably good. Sales of meal we're ssde at
81 shiiliLgs for white and 81 shiiliugs tor
red descriptions. Although no great nc.
tivity IL ever lookeI 'or in the grain
trade during harvest time, the depression
was greater than usual the past week
owing TO the enormous arrivals of foreign
wheat and oats. The supplies have been
upon large scale for some weeks past
and the return or Monday last gave over
100000 quarters. Prices have given
WAY, and decline OF TWO 10 three shll-
Ings per quarter WAS quoted last Monday
tor wheat. Oats and other articles re-
main without much variation, but trade
generally Is overweIghted by the supplies,
which are pouring Ia at such g. rate that
the resources OF the various dock COmpa
mes have been taxed to the uttermost TO
discharge the vessels, and merchants
haze been seriously lnCsnvenieuCed by
the difficulty OF obtaining grsnary room
There are two conflicting .orces in opera
tiUn IN trade at the pres, nj time, and it Is
difficult to ioresee which will prove the
stronger Ga one hand, America, Russia
aud Hungary have been favored with
abundant crops, and on the other, de.
fcient hsrvcsts in France and England.
The blockade Of the southern Rus
sian ports and the uncertainty of
politics are circumstances which may,
during the winter months assume u
torcs greater than st present. Tho sn-
nua pamphlet by Barthelemy & Is
,ienne, OF Marseiles on the French bar
vest prospects says: The prospects OF the
wheat harvest in two departments Is
very good, in sixteen good, in two pretty
good, IN thirty TWO poor, IN nine bad
Oats prospects are very good in four de-
psrtments, good in twenty-seven, pretty
good in twenty eight, poorjn twenty one
bad in two. Rye prospects very good in
four departments, good m ten, pretty
good IN fifteen, poor in thirty-two and
very bad IN eleven.