The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-17

CI1UutCu oil average Ol ~ pei CcuJ.
Russia a, Germany II, France o, and
other countries %. In the last four
years, however. the proportion sup.
piled by the United States has in
creased As per cent, while that of
Russia has decreased to Is per cent,
the remaining countries furnishing 80
instead Of 40 per cent. The British
receipts for 1877 SO far show def
cheney, as compared with 1875, or
nearly 100000 cwt. of wheat and
250,O0 cwt. of -four. The total re-
ceipts for wheat for the first quarter
of 1877 were S,577 ,206 cwt., of which
the United States furnished 4,999, 377
cwt., nearly three-fourths coming
from the Pacific coast.
Now let us see where this great
English deficiency is to come from
another year. In the first place Bus
STA and Turkey must be counted out.
Neither will have food supplies of any
kind to spare. On the contrary taking
into consideration the fact that hun
dreds off thousands of farmers have
been already drawn from their fields
to recruit the opposing armies, and
the waste and destruction consequent
upon war, both nations may fairly be
expected to enter the market as buy
ers. We have not at hand the figures
showing the exact amount of the Eng
lish deficiency heretofore supplied by
Turkey, but we believe it to be some
thing like per cent. of the total. Add
to this the l6 per cent. furnished by
Russia, and we find deficiency in
the usual supply of q per cent, or
something of 81 100000 bushels, to be
made up from the remaining cOun-
tries. Surprising the crops of France.
Germany, Hungary, India and Aus
tralia to be of average yield, and the
United States will be called upon to
add to her shipments as her proper
ton over twelve millions of bushels.
But it is a fact that the SURPRISES of
Australia and India are not up to the
average. The wheat fields of the for.
mer have suffered sadly from drouth,
while the terrible famine in India has
materially curtailed the production in
that country. AS for Hungary, Aus
tria and Germany, it is hardly to be
expected that, amid the uncertainties
of the situation. which forces the
recruiting of their armies to a nearly
active war footing, they will do more,
if as much, as heretofore.
The wheat production of this coun-
try has twice exceeded total Of three
hundred million bushels. but the
average since 1859 is scarcely two
hundred and seventy. Two hundred
millions are required for seed and home
consumption, and more than sixty
million bushels have been annuity ex-
ported. Of this, California has fur
nished goodly proportion, but the
crop of 1877, while of average promise
in some portionsof the state. is almost
total failure in others, and the ship
ping surplus of the state, as whole,
will fall considerable below the aver
age. The conclusion from all these
facts is, therefore, that an increased
area of spring wheat in this country,
with an abundant average yield, will
be required to supply the world.
Good prices will of course prevail. We
are glad to know that the FARMERS of
Minnesota have not been blind to the
importance of these facts, but that all
over the state, in the grasshopper dis
tricts and out, they have sown broad
fields, which promise to bring them
golden harvests. Let Minnesota har-
vest thirty-five million bushels of
wheat in 1877, and she will be the
most prosperous state in the Union
Pioneer Press.