The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-16
RAISING GRAIN

The estimates Of the grain crop raised IN
this country this year, which were made last
summer, will not be realized, sO experts say.
This, however, from PRESENT appearances,
will make no difference with the farmer in so
far as the pecuniary result is concerned. The
foreign demand for the surplus grain raised
in America is likely to be so great that prices
must be sitter, and what sur grain grow
ers lack in the quantity of their
surplus will be made up in
this way. According to British
agricultural returns the wheat acreage of
Great Britain is 1900 600 acres, and that of
tho United Kingdom 30557s4 acres. The
average yipll this year is estimated by some
authorities at thirty bushels per acre for The
United Kingdom, by others at ty-eight
bushels, and by still Others at only twenty
bushels. Taking the highest estimate, thirty
bushels per acre. aud deduct thereirom two
and half bushels per acre for seed, and tho
entire Weld will be 81, 0SO, 0G0 This is 49,.
100000 bushels less than is necessary for
the home consumption of the Unit d
Kingdom. But assuming that thirty
bushels per acre is too high
an estimate and splitting the
difference between thirty bushels anu twenty
bushels, tho lowest estimate made, and We
will have the yield at twenty-five aud half
bushels after deducting seed, which will give
the total yield at 6s,sOO, l40 bushels, or a
shortage of what is necessary for home con
sump,ion of l27,l99,s6O bushels. From
September lst, 1919, to June Soih, 1880, Great
Britain imported A7,6lO6lG hundredweights
of cereals, of which very nearly two'thirds
came from the United States, and
4,lA9, 1856 hundredweighis came from Russis.
THERE'S also demand for grain in the south Of
Europe and in the Leyant so that the out
look for ready sale and coed prices for our
surplus grain is bright one. The continued
development and extension of the railroads
of Texas is opening up new areas for
small grain pfoduc,ions,..an the increased
facilities afforded by our railroad extensions
and their multiplying connections must
necessarily give new impetus to the grain
Interests of the state. New Orleans must
become grain mart in the near
future, for her jetties enable her
to command for her export and import
trade, the heaviest tonnage ahoat, and the
water route being the cheapest for the grain
of the west in its search for market, it will
not be many years before elevators will be as
common within her limits as cotton COM
presses now are. This will giyet our grain
producers new field in which to hunt for
prices for the result of their lsbors in grow
ing wheat, barley, rye and oats. The adapt
ability Of. our climate and soil here in north
Texas. for the culture of the cereals, makes
this section the favored one of all the state.
The farmer can diversity bis crops and by this
means, if cotton should fail him, still have a
crop to bring him an Income. We have
not the data at hand just now to give the
figures of the Texas grain for this year. but
suffice it to say, that although it was short of
what It generally is, yet there was surplus
and it has brought money TO the state This,
taken in consideration, with the fact that
Texas has this year raised and picked over a
million bales of Gotten worth SbO,OO00Oo, 1t
certainly seems that there cannot be more
inviting field for the immigrant than Texas
offers. We are glad TO see cotton raised.
We consider it the great crop of the state and
the main agricultural. standby, but side by
side with the staple here in north Texas we
must also rate the cereals, and especially
wheat. While people must have cotton for
clothing, they must also have wheat for
bread, and as between the two, people can
do without new clothing for q year, butcould
not well dispense with bread. Let not our
farmers underestimate the importance Of
grain culture, aud let them remember that
every year Texas wheat is gaining gSouul a
The masksts.of the world.