Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-18
The United States as {,
Wheat Country,

A little over thirty years ago tho Spring.
field Republican notes that grain was i'm
ported to this country from tho Black Sea.
During the crop year on which the country
is Just entering, it claims that it is certain
that 160,000,O00 bushels of wheat will be
exported to Europe, and the amount may
reaoh 200,000,000 bushels. The grain
is in this country; the only question is one
of demand. Tho demand last year from
Europe was for 159, 100000 bushels out of
crop estimated at 420,000,O0O bushels.
The production this year is larger. 1t is
onc-fourth larger in Kansas; in Minnesota
the production this ycay is 40,000,000
bushels, a'large advance over last year; tho
grain fields of Southern Ohio show an un.
preccdcutcd yield; SO do those of Iowa; and
in Indiana the crop will, in somo cases,
pay for tho ground On which it stands
The wheat acreage of the country is put at
100000 acres, an increase of ono fifth
in two years Tho average yield is placed
at IL bushels an aoro, and tho acreage ut
3I,000,O00 acres, by Alexander Delmar,
who wrote to tho Times in the close of
July, aftor trip through tho wheat fields
of tho West, ending at Ogden. The statis.
toan of tho New York Produce Exchange
puts the average yield at from II to IL
bushels; other more sapguino estimates
carry it up to l3 or ii bushels an acre.
The lowest estimate yet made places the
crop at 3G0,000,0O0, the largest at 44O,-
0O0, 900, and crop of 42O,0OO,0O0 may
be reasonably counted upon. This is an
increase in ten years Of l33,000,0OO
bushels in tho annual wheat production of
this country, and an increase nearly
equal to the total wheat harvest of twenty
years ago.
Out of this years harvest, reckoning the
population in this country at 4S,500,000
persons, 100000 bushels will be
needed for consumption aud 50,000,000 for
seed, in all pa, 100000; leaving, at the
highest estimate, 19G,O00,00 foJ export,
to which may be added 70, 900, 900 bushels
left over from last years crop. Whether
the European demand will be equal the
amount of surplus wheat in this country is
considered by the Republican as doubtful.
1t will unqucstionably equal last years
demand, und the valuo of tho brcadstutfs
exported during the coming year will
probably reach $l50,0OO,0O0, and may rise
to u higher figure. The unknown quantity
in the wheat supply of the world is Rnssia.
Its harvest has been pronounced far under
the average for weeks past, but recent ad
vices tell different story. At best how.
ever, nothing more than an average surplus
for export is to be expected, not over So.
100000 bushels; and if this is supplemented
by tho usual European import, 20,000,000
bushels from Roumunia aud 100000
from Canada and Australia, the
total wheat supply which Europe is likely
to receive from points outside of this coun-
try may be placed at 75,000,000 The
current deficiency in Europe is placed
at from 225,000, 1000 to 275,00O,0OO
bushels.
The demand in England is clearly known.
1t will amount to about ll0,000,000
bushels. The demand in France can be
less accurately estimated All Northern
Africa is in state of famine, or 10 produc-
ing barely enough for its own supply, leav.
ing nothing for export. This cuts of ono
French source ofssupply in Algeria. The
crops in Northern Italy have failed, and
Italy is importing grain already, instead of
exporting it, which closes another region
from which France obtains grain. Tho
potato crop in Northern France has gene.
rally failed, and the local food supply oil
over the republic 10 deficient. 1t is a
low estimate, then, which places the
French demand for wheat at 100000, ,000f
bushels. The rest of Europe will probabIys
need 75,000,0 900 more, but may need less.
Tho food supply of continent is not
thing TO be easily reduced to figures. Mo.
derato estimates, however, plaoo tho do.
mand at larger figure than the amount Of
tho probable surplus in this country. 1t
will probably all be needed, but our autho
rity is not likely that it will bo called for
at high prices. This is tho present outlook.
Very triling causes may change the exist.
ing condition of affairs in favor of high
prices. One thing is certain; no crop of
wheat ever harvested in this country will
be carried to market moro cheaply, and
none, therefore, will leave larger margin
of profit in the hands of tho farmers
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