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The Los Angeles EXPRESS, July
~, contained an interesting edi-
Mai description Of the San Fer
14ndo valley, which is called "a
@Annry Of Los Angeles" This
NY had this year about Az, 900
$3.50 IL wheat, and on moderate
Minute the yield is reckOned at
y oontals, or sixteen and two
~ bushels per acre, giving
80 total Of 667, 1855 bushels. One
1ot Of 40 acres was harvested and
.r16hed out during the second
ook In July, with the result OF
I1Gk1y 48 bushels to the acre.
Hef parts of the valley will yield
bushels to the acre, but rust In
&1no parts and blight in others
Will bring the average Of the 40, 1000
<jFoa down to less than II bushels
~ fho acre. The owners OF these
~ Fernando wheat fields COM
MI that their harvest is delayed
~ s want Of headers and threshers,
ikioh were not purchasable this
&oAP, owing TO the fact
3<kt the immensely of
NJ wheat planting in the
Inttsd States greatly exceeds the
|nctfy Of the manufactures of ag-
Natural machinery. The writer
The article In the EXPRESS says.
= he demand for machinery for Los
AnGales county created great as
@ulahment in the agricultural
|(R&Iohouses of San Francisco" and
HAT sssome of the leading firms"
1r6oted the Advices Of the volume
RI tho wheat crop in that vicinity
~ lncredulity. The logical in
ecnco from all this is that the
11at crop OF the State, especially
~ Eos Angeles and other southern
E11n counties, is vastly larger in
4E6o than that Of last year: and II
~ average of ten oentals to the
<oco can be maintained, that the
&16ld will be far greater than that
any past season. In 1878 the
7]5holo county Of Los Angeles had
&nt 1900 acres In wheat, and the
4 1onal yield Was but $50, 600 bushels.
3 IAlo year San Fernando valley
Eo1ooe has AZ, 900 acres, and the total
2I1oid Of the county will hardly fall
1&oft OF 1900, 900 bushels. The in
1s6ess 10 over 260 per cent. In
D}8 The total acreage in wheat in
.0l1 the State was 2,l56, 472. It is
dopposed to be about 1900, 900 acres
AHA year, or an increase Of 224 per
s|oont. With but the came low av-
osage yield Of 167S-133 bushels to
! ~ acre-the total yield this year
would be 34,800,000 bushels; but
should the average for the State at
large equal that of the San Fer
naudo vAlley-not heretofore stated
as : very superior wheat region
( the total harvest Of California will
exceed $4,000, 600 bushels. This
would give US an exporting capa-
bility much in excess of the ton
mage of 1879-80, and make the ship.
ping BUSINESS very lively in San
( VfAnCiscO during the coming Fall
md Winter months. But recent
,ocop reports from most of the
Wbeat-gtowing counties indicate u
much larger aggregate than this.
in fact unless these reports are
Mighty oSef-estimated, the entire
harvest,6f the state cannos fall be.
low 5O,O0O,O00 bushels; which
would, after reserving 5000, 000O
bushels for bread aud 5000, 900 for
H6ed, leave surplus of $1,000, 00C
busheIs, or over l,lO0,0O0 tons fol
export.
Pfices promise just now to be
7 better than 1t was thought n fort
night ago they could be. Tie
E1glis crop will be, perhaps, a
little above the average, and Ger.
fatally much above last yeag's.
But = reported deficiency, amount.
( Ing to 78. 0OO,O bushels, In Rus
4 sis, with a failure of rye in Ger.
B many, which is a leading bread
s staple in that country, must inevi-
tAbiy cause q demand for Ameri.
eau wheat in Germany and short
en-, II not altogether cut off, the
exports from Russia to England,
having the supply for that market
almost exclusively in the hands oil
he Amercans. The English de.
unnd last year WAS 1875, 900, 00(
Bushels. The exports from the
United States amounted to 1922
- O0O; but Of this aggregate Eng.
Land. Ireland and Scotland took
only 81, 000, 900 bushels. Our Other
customers took as follows from US;
Bushels