Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1878-11-21
The Bread wants Of Eua
rene:

our surplus grain, will be larger
than it has ever been, in any single
year. During the last three Weeks
The en6rthous quantity of 5000, 900
bushels of Wheat. f6.O6o barrels of
four and 1,360, 600 bushels of corn
has been shipped from the port of
New York alone, while there have
been corresponding shipments
from other parts Of the tohhtty,
the effect Of which must be to slim
ulate every department of trade in
the United States, and we are dis
posed to think, will occasion All
advance in the price of breadstuffs
at home.
On this subject, the Philadelphia
Times says:
"The qaantity Of breadstuffs
which Great Britain and France
will require of US during the next
twelve month is a subject of deep
interest, not only to the farmers
who have raised this CROPS and to
the ttanspbrters engageI in hand
ling therd, but to the country itself,
to wh"s6 foreign credit the sales
must be placed. The prospect
now appears quite certain that the
demand of the two counties will
consider ably exceed that of last
year, and that the increased pur
chases must be all be made of the
United States. None of the, sec
tions which supply grain to West
Sin Eutbre are Id d situation I'd
send n1ore, than their average guam
tity Id Russia, besides the dis
tur bance to agricultural operations
CAUSED by the heavy military
drafts, the crops have been short
ened by droughts in some quarters
and excessive rains in others; Iur-
key has been devastated by %at
and has hothihg to spare for mar
ket; Egypt has but wletched
yield of wheat this year and will
sell little or nose, while India is
not yet fulfilling the high English
expectations of her Importance as
d grain producers To America;
therefore, the English and French
asniands are directed, and the
present estimate of good authority
is that they will call upon us for
two millions of quartets-sixteen
millions of bushels-in excess of
the year 1S77-7S. The French
grain crop is exceptionally bad. the
harvest having been delayed by
continuous and heavy rains, SO that
wheigas the defcisntt Of that
: country last year was rgckoned at
t~o millions bf quarters, it.is now
believed thdt this year it will reach
: four milliohs Or even more. The
london Saturday Revieao makes
an estimate as hig b as five TO setei
: millions, and to meet this heavy
:, want French agents are already
|, buying freely. in the ports of the
. Black Sea:
! "An intteasc in our wheat ex=
f port bf sixteen millions of bushels
q will go taf to. stimulate the tht@afd
: trade of the United States dttring
o the year now opening. The great
: CROPS we have just harvested will
4 enable lis to meet the foreign de-
tf1ahd without difficulty and to re-
u aiize all the opportunity Which the
i shortness of the French harvest of:
IS fers to the grain>sellihs hations.-
Peace Within Our b6iders, the de-
yelopement OF oht Northwestern
wheat lands aid the prodigious in
crease Of BUR crop-producing Ca
is patity by improved machinery arr
: elements of enottnous advantag,
st which we possess over the prini-
9; tive and -liarassed agriculturist
u oh the old lat,ds of Eastern Eu-
y rope. We shall send to Grca
to Britain ptBbably fifteen milliohs {
: Quarters, and to France two mil
OF lions; total of over one lrtndre
E ana thirty millions of Bushels {
a @lieat-counting TIE aotr ae in th
DC forth of grain. The balance to OF
oe actount abroad mtsst continne
10 Increase during the coming year
oi far as bread-stuffs are concerne,
a and the growth in this particular
ne unlikely to be offset BY any fallin
on off in other exports"