Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26
How America Feeds the Old World.

We printed Thursday from the Lon
don Times staten. ent of the crops and
their condition in Great Britain and
Ireland, and the financial loss to the
producers caused by 3" a sunless spring
and summer, accompanied by excessive
rains and low temperature. The acre
age of the United Kingdom under the
main crops is put down: Wheat, 3,048,-
900; barley, 1881, 600; oats, 3,987, 600;
potatoes, 1, 9S4, 600. The writor states
that the probable outcome of each of
these crops will be one-third less than
an average yield. This deficiency in
the wheat, barley and oats crops is put
down as equal to $3.50 per acre, an
aggregate loss of 1925, 900, 900 to the
cultivators in these three crops. The
partial failure of beans, peas and rye is
counted as loss of $l5, 200, 600.
One of the greatest losses, however,
is in the potato crop. Fifty dollars per
acre is put down as not sufficient to
compensate growers for the blight that
has already come upon it. The only
use that most of the crop can be put to
is to feed hogs. The total loss on po-
tatoes will not be less than S75, 900, 600.
The hop crop is almost a total failure,
and the loss 50, 500, 900. The destruc-
ton of growing and mown grass, the
imperfect curing of what was saved,
and the late season have inflicted a loss
-Of S75, 100000. These losses aggregate
$500, 900, 900, and de not include the
losses from the failure of root crops, or
from live stock deprived of the ordi-
airy grass feeding. This is by no
means complete summing up of the ag-
ricultural misfortunes of the present
year in the United Kingdom.
The same article asserts that the de-
mand in Great Britain and Ireland for
breadstuffs for the year August, 1879,
to Sept /, 1880, will be 16, 200, 900 and
and possibly 100000 quarters of
breadstuffs, equal to 1873, 100000 bush.
els OF wheat. France will need co.
100000 bushels, and Germany, Italy,
Belgium, Holland and the rest of Eu-
rope viii call for 40,000,000 bushels.
The failure of the grass crops and the
potato and other root crops will create
heavy demand for American corn and
oats. The live stock of Great Britain
will have TO be largely fed on imported
food.
Great Britain will this year not pro-
duce over one-third the quantity of
breadstuffs which will be required 10
meet the demand for food, and unless
there be great relief given TO the farm
ers in the way of reduced rents and
rates, this deficiency will continue, If It
do not increase, hereafter. In one
sense this great deficiency in the food
supply of over $50, 900, 900 OF people In
Europe is in the direction Of a partial
famine, but it is accompanied by cir
cumstances which strongly mark the
beneficence of an allwise Providence.
AT the suggestion of a famine the
mind instinctively recurs TO famine
prices. Ordinarily the failure or par
tial failure of a crop is attended by an |
advance in prices of all articles of food.
the advance being in much greater pro.
portion than the scarcity of the supply.
In this case, however, the rule Is re-.
versed. The anomaly is presented of
an unprecedented deficiency in bread
stutfs in half of Europe, with a supply
from America SO vast that consumers !