The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-01-31
Crops Of 1877 Througho ut the wsrld.


This country is the greatest of grain
merchants, and ii is well, with the
opening of the Few year,to take 81 ac-
count of stock. Let us sum up the re-
suits of the harvests of 1877, both in
our own land and in 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
case of wheat, for instance, the deiii-
cheney is reckoncd at from five to
seven per cent, and there is no doubt
that France will be obliged to supple
ment her native resources, to some
extent, by importations of this staple.
Great Britain is less fortunate than
France. In England the yield of wheat
barley, and oats is considerably be-
low the average. The results are sim
liar in Scotland and Ireland, and a
further source of loss to the latter
country is the fact that potatoes suf-
fered greatly, owing to the humidity
Of the atmosphere. AS regards Italy,
very different returns are offered by
by different localities. Throughout
the southern provinces, formerly COM
prised in the Kingdom of Naples, the
crops seem to have been excellent i'll
respect of quality, although the guam
tity fell somewhat short of the expec-
tations of the spring. In Tuscany
and the country of Ancona, and
throughout the old States of the
Church, the amount of grain harvest
ed in thirty per cent. below the yield
of average years.
With one or two exceptions, the re-
ports from the countries which make
up the German Empire are decidedly
unfavorablc. In the Rhine provinces
wheat exhibits gain of ten per cent.
over the normal quantity, bat else
where in Prussia every species of
grain shows a decline OF from six to
seventeen per cent. We find nearly
equivalent results in Baden aud Wur-
temburg, but in Saxony the crop of
wheat is equal to the average, and in
parts of Bavaria it rose some seven
teen per cent. above the normal level.
In the latter country, moreover, the
volume of barley harvested is at least
a quarter larger than the usual return.
In the German provinces Of Austria
the amount of wheat is between two
and three million quintals i'll excess
of the products of ordinary years.
In Hungary the amount of wheat
garnered is extremely satisfactory.
AS rule this country is able to ex
port from three to four million quin
tails, but the product of 1877 will more
than double that surplus. We may
add that in other respects the past
year has been profitable one TO the
Hungarian agriculturist, nearly all
sorts of grain giving returns fas above
the average. We come now to Rus
STA, the great rival of the United
States. as purveyor of grain, and
here we find marked variance of re-
suits 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 or
binary years. Throughout central
and southern Russia, on the other
hand, the wheat crop is excellent, and
present over the returns of 1876 an ex-
cess of twenty-five per cent. A mark
ed falling of, 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 III the United States the har-
vests of the year are on the whole en-
inently satisfactory. Thus our yield
of wheat, which, in 1876 vas 250,o00,- |
600 bushels, rose last season to 325, 000,- |
000 The quantity of corn is comput-
ed at LOCO, 100000 bushels, represent
ing gain of about 40, 100000 bushels |
In view of all the facts here stated, |
there is no doubt that the foreign de- |
mand for our productions will exhib-
it large increase during the next five
or six months, and that the exist ng |
situation is peculiarly favorable to
the American agriculturist.-NeW
York Sun.