The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-14
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Crops of, 1877 rhroughour the worla

Crops of, 1877 Throughout the World
lhls country is the greatest of erair
merchants, and it is we'll, with the openin,
OF the new year, to take an account q
stock. Let us sum up the results of tbt
harvests OF 1877 both in our own land anf
IN European states.
AS regards France, the grain cron of tbs
year shows an average return in noint ~
quantity, but decline is remarked II
weight and quality as compared with tbe
yield of 1876, In the case OF wheat f.,
instance, the deficiency is reckoned at from
i've 10 seven per cent, and there is nc
douDt that france will be obliged to sun
pieheht her native resources. to some ex-
te3s, oy lmportations of this staple.
TT uFeas pritaln Is less fortunate than
france In England, the yield of wheat,
oaridy' and oats is considerably below the
average, The results arc similar in Scot
iand and ireland. and further source of
loss 10 tue latter country is the fact that
potatoes suffered greatly, owing to the
prevailing humidity of the atmosnbere
AS regards Italy, very different returns
are offered by different localities. Throurb-
OUT the southern provinces, formerly com
prised 10 the kingdom of Naples, the crops
seem to have been excellent in respect Of
quality, although the quantity fell some
what short of the expectations of the
spring. In Tuscany and the country of
Aneona, and throughout the old states of
the church, the amount of grain harvested
Is thirty per cent. below the yield of aver
age years.
with one or two exceptions the reports
from the countries which make mn the
GERMAN Empire are decidedly unfavorable.
In the thine province wheat exhibits a
gam OF ten per cent. over the normal
quantity, but elsewhere In Prussia every
species of grain shows decline of from
SIX 10 seventeen per cent. We find
nearly equivalent results in Baden and
Wurtemberg, but in Saxony the crop of
wheat IS equal to the average. and
IN parts OF Bavaria it rose some seventeen
per cent. above the normal level. In the
latter country. moreover, the volume of
barley harvested is at least aquarter larger
than the usual return. In the German
provinces OF Austria the amount of wheat
is between two and three million ouin,als
IN excess of the products of ordinary wears.
In Hungary the amount Of wheat
v, u
rule this country is able to export from
three to four million quintas, but the pro
ducts OF 1877 will more than double that
surplus, We may add that, in other re-
spects, the past year has been a profitable
one to the hungarian agriculturist, nearly
all sorts OF grain giving returns far above
the average, We come now to Russia. the
great rival of the United States, as a pur
veyor of grain, and here we find a marked
variance of results according to localities.
In the plains OF the Vistula, and generally
within the limits of Russian Poland, the
yield OF wheat shows decline of from ten
to fifteen per cent below ordinary years.
Throughout central and southern Russia.
on the other hand, the wheat crop is ex
cellent, and presents over the returns of
1876 an excess of twenty FIVE per cent. A
marked falling off, however, is observed in
the yield of barley and oats,
such is the record of 1877 for most of
the grain producing countries of Europe,
In the United States the harvests of the
year are on the whole eminently salts
factory. Thus our yield of wheat, which
10 1916 was $50 100000, rose last season to
SO, 00O000 The quantity of corn is com,
puted at l, 100000 900 bushels, represent
ing gain of about 100000 bushels.
In view Of all the facts here stated, there
Is no doubt that the foreign demand for
our productions will exhibit large Increase
during the next FIVE or six months. and
that the existing situation Is peculiarly
favorable to the American agriculturist.-
n, /. Sun.