Connecticut western news., 1878-01-17
INTERESTING GRAIN STATISTICS.
The Crops for 1877 Throughout the. World.
 The Amount of Grain Raised.

INTERESTING GRAIN STAT1STICS. The Crops for 1877 Throughout the WOrId--
 The Amount of Grain Raised.
 This country is the greatest of grain merchants, and it is we'll, with the open ing of the new year, to take an account of stock. Let us sum up the results Nf 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 marked in weight and quality as compared to the yield of 1876. In the case of wheat for instance, the deficiency is reckoned 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 importations 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 and Ireland, and further source of loss to the latter country is the fact that potatoes suffered greatly owing to the prevailing humidity of the atmos- phere. AS regards Italy, very different returns are offered by different localities. Throughout the Southern provinces, formerly comprised in the kingdom of Naples, the crops seem to have been ex- cellent in respect of quality, although the quantity fell somewhat short of the expectations of the spring. In Tuscany and the country of Ancona, and through out the old States of the Church, the amount of grain harvested is thirty per cent below the yield of average years.
 With one or two exceptions the reports from the countries which make up the German Empire are decidedly unfavor- able. In the Rhine province wheat ex- hibits gain of ten per cent. over the normal, quantity, but elsewhere in Prus- sia every species of grain shows decline of from six to 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 quarter larger than the usual return. In the German provinces of Austria the amount of wheat is between two and three mil lion quintals in excess of the products of ordinary years.
 In Hungary the amount of wheat gar nered is extremely satisfactory. As a rule this country is able to export from three to four million quintals, but the products of 1877 will more than double that surplus. We may add, that in other respects the past year has been profit able 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 purveyor of grain, and here we find marked variance of results, ac- cording to localities. In the plains of yistula, and generally within the limits of Russian Poland, the yield of wheat shows decline of from ten to fifteen per cent. below ordinary years. Through out central and southern Russia, on the other hand, the wheat crop is excellent and presents over the returns of 1876 an excess of twenty-f per cent. A marked 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. In the United States the harvests of the year are on the whole eminently satisfac- tory. Thus our yield of wheat, which in 1876 was 256, 900, ,O0O bushels, rose last season to 325, 100000. The quanti- ty of corn is computed at 1900, ,000. COG bushels, representing gain of about 40, 900, 900 bushels. In view of all these 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 ex- isting situation is peculiarly favorable to the American agriculturist.