The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-07
Crops Of 1877 Throughout the World.


This country is the greatest Of
grain merchants. and it is well, with
the opening Of the new year, to take
an account Of stock. Let US sum up
the results of the harvest Of 1877,
both in our own land and il European
states
As regards France, the grain crop
Of the year shows an average return in
point of quantity, but decline is re.
marked in weight and quality as COM
pared with the yield Of 1876. In the
Of wheat, for instance, the deficiency is
rcconed at from five to seven per cent.
and there is no doubt that France will
be obliged to supplement- her native
resources, to some extent, by importa,
tions Of this staple.
Great Britain is less fortunate. than
France. In England, the yield of
wheat, barley, and oats is considerably
below the average. The results are
similar in Scotland ard Ireland A
further source of loss to the country is
the fact that potatoes suffered greatly,
owing to the Prevailing humidity OF
the atmosphere. As regards Italy,
very different returns are offered by
different localities. Throughout the
southern provinces, formerly comrvis-
ed in the kingdom of Naples, the crops
seem to have been excellent in respect
Of quality. although the quantity fell
somewhat short of the expectations Of
the spring. In Tuscany and the count.
nv Of Ancona. and throughout the
states OF the church. the amount of
grain harvested is thirty per cent. be
low the yei'd of average years
With one or two exceptions the re
por.s from the countries which make
up the the German Empire are de-
cidedly unfsvorab.e. In the Rhine
province wheat exhibits a gain of ten
per cent. over the normal qra'ity. but
elsewhere in Prussia every species Of
grain shows a decline of from six to
seventeen per cent We find nearly
equiv,len, results in Baden and Wurt-
emberg but in Saxony the crop Of
wheat equal to the average, aud in
parts Of Bavaria it rose some seven.
teen pr cent above the norma! level.
In the latter country, moreover, the
volume Of barle, harvested is at least
quarter larger than the usual return
In the German provinces Of Austria
the amount of wheat is between two
and three million Gnintals in excess Of
the products Of ordinary years In
Hungary the amount Of wheat garner.
ed is extremely satisfactory AS a
rule this country is able to export from
three to four million quinsals, but the
products os 1877 will more than dou-
ble that surplus. We may add that,
IN other respects, the past year has
teen a profitable one to the Iiungsr.
ian agr;cul,urist, nearly all sorts ol
grain giving returns tar above the
average We come now to Russia, the
great rival OF the Uti,ed States, as a
purvcyor Of grain, and here we find Q
marked variance Of r. suits according
to localities. In the plains ofthc Wis.
su!a, and generally within the limits o.
Russian Poland, the yield Of wheat
shows decline Of from ten TO fifteen
per cent. below ordinary yields
throughout central and southern
Russia, on the other hand. the whea,
crop is excellent, and presents over til,
returns of 1876 an excess of twenty
five per cent. 4 marked falling off
however. is observed in tie yield o.
barley and oats.
Such is the record Of 1877 for mos,
Of the grain producing countries O
Europe In the United States tn,
harvests OF the year are on the whole
cminently satisfactory. Thus oul
yield of wheat, which in 1876 wa
256 900 0e0 bushels, rose last season
to $500, 900. The quantity Of corr
is computed at 1900, 900 600 bushels
representing gain Of about 40 900,
900 bushels In view of all the fact
here stated, there is no doubt that tn
foreign demand for our production
will exhibit large increase durin
the next five or six months, aud III
the existing situation is PECULIAR y Fl,
vorable to the American agricu turis'
Il New York Sun.