Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-08-13
The Wheat Crop orc.

the prodoct of the year. Telegraph
ic advices and letters from cores
ents in all sections of the wheat
growing country have detailed the
acreage and the average quality and
quantity OF grain; and from these
accounts rough summaries of the
general result may be deIived-sub-
ject, Of course, to modification 10y
fullepadvices and more accurate OBJ
servations.
1t is probable that the wheat crop
of this year will be the largest ever
produced in this country. The av-
erage yield OF the best years is about
100000, 900 bushels. This year,
with The general freedom from grass
boppers and largely Increased acre
age III the finest wheat-growing por-
tons of the continent-uotably Nor
thern Minnesota and Dakota, 1t can
hardly fail to go incoDsiderably
above that fgure-perhaps 375,O OO,-
900 bushels Or this product at
least twutifths will probably 60
abroad. The average importations
of the United Kingdom alone are
100000, 900, but wet weather has in
jured the crop there, and ii is thought
that 100000 bushels more than
usual will be required from outside
sources.
Next to the United States, Russia
is the great wheat-exporting country
of the world. She produces ordina-
rily less than France, but consumes
lower percentage of her crop; and
this year it is estimated that she will
have 5O,0Q0,O0O bushels of her 200,
100000 product to sell abroad. This
excess of Russia, however. is but
just equal to the deficit of France
i5O,00O,00W and Austria Hungary
l2OO,O00,OO0). Italy, in consequence
of the OVERLOOKING Of her streams,
will have short crop this year, and
will need something like 3o,0O0,OOO
bushels from abroad; while Germa-
ny will fall little below her average
product. which will place her deficit
at about 20.900,OOO. Switzerland
Holland, Portugal and other coun
tries will have a deficit Of something
like 20,000,000. Roumania will have
the finest crop over harvested in that
country, and can furnish the 10000
600 bushels needed for the deficit of
the countries last named. The de-
ficits of the United Kingdom, Italy,
aud Germany, aggregating probably
100000, 600, will therefore have to
be met by importatious from the
United States with the exception Of
perhaps 100000 bushels from Can
ada, Australia and India. This will
require trifle more than two-ffths
Of our estimated product of 315 ,00O,-
900 bushels.
With an increase of but 30 per
cent. in our wheat production, we
should be able to supply the present
deficit of the world. The rapid de-
velopement of the new wheat-felds
in the Northwest renders this in
crease likely soon to be reached.
the farming lands there are prac-
tically inexhaustib!e in quantity, and
the soil and climate are exceptionally
fitted for the successful growth of
wheat. The rainy Spring with late
SHOWS, supplying the young grain
with abundant moisture, the long
days of that northern latitude, and
the warm dry weather Of the ripen-
ing and harvesting season, are the
signs by which Nature has declared
that here shall be the future great
wheat-felds of the world. Commerce
answers the demands of Nature, and
the construction of the Northern
Pacific Railroad through the very
heart of this fertile region gives all
easy and certain access to market
by water transportation from the
head of Lake Superior one-half the
year, and by several rail routes to
Chicago all the time. The develop
nent Of the country on the line Of
the Northern Pacific, phenomenal
as it has been for the last two or
three years, is but the prelude of
what must he mighty movement
of immigration to the boundless
wheat lands of Northern Minnesota,
Dakota and Montana. - Chicago