The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-06
THE UNITED STATES Al A WHEAT
COUNTRY.
IBoientil1c Americana

A little over thirty years ago the Springfield
Rspnh,ican n ,y NAT E,ain was INJECTED t.
crop year Oh which tho country l. Just enter.
bushels u wheat viii be expo1taa 70 huroga.
HE sra.I il ID thia. country; mo only question
ip ono OF demand. Tha demand last year from
Europe was for $4,000 900 bneh els out 81 . crop
In Kansas. Ia MINNESOTA tia production this
year II 40 oo0 900 bushels. q large advance over
s6ow al unprecy dented Yield: 70 do ttose oi
Iowa: and In indiana the crop Will, IN
s ,s,s naees Ea' Tor what ns ground o.
IA inerease. Of ona.iif.h In Two years. The
average yield II placed vt twelve bushels nn
Alexander ,Delmar. VINO wrote to tho Iimes la
the slose of Jgly. after trio through the wheat
telts u the West, ending as Ogden. !, The alta
puts the average yield at from eleven % twelve
hushela; other more ean9utne Estimates carry
~ w to thirteen or fourteen buHhels an acre.
The lnweat estimate yet made rlaoes the crop ut
400 600 900 tho largest at 440 600 900. and crop of
4a0 uoo,ooy may be reasonably counted upon
rbts u an increase ~ ten years 81 tay. 1o0 600
bushels In tho annual wheat product N Of thia
country. and nh increase nearly equal to tho
total .whaet harvest Of twenty years ago.
Out OF thie years harvest. reckoning tho pop-
ip4 900. 900 bushels viii DO needed for conan,np-
ton aud 90 600 900 for seed. III all IA 0oO 600
!saynx vs M hs ss b saas a. s
H. oses c 70 the amou az
s. ss,Yss ss% Z. aos fsSHff .
value II t6e 6readstniYs exported during the
Saa ay y'@ r.s u Sshc s"a snre 40
unknown quantity ~ the :. wheat upply
OF the world !: Russia, IT. harvest has
wsses p nss sa IL aavcss
story. At beat. however. nothing more than an
AVERAGE surnlns for export " e 70 expected
mented by tho usuai European Import aoooo. ooa
bushels from Roumania. and 100000 from
Canada and Australia. the total wheat supply
outside 81 this country may % piaced II 7s.coo.,
900, The current deficiency IN Europe IL placed
1t from 2ab 900. 900 to 27e. ooo. 900 bushels.
will amount TO about llo.ooo.ooo bushels. The
demand In France cRn b. less accurately esti-
mated. Al! Northern Africa Il ID q state Of
own supply, leaving nothing for export. This
outs of one french source OF supply IN Algeria.
tn: crops IN Northern Italy have failed and
porting II. which closes another region from
which France obtains grain. The potato crop
Ia Northern France has generally failed. and
fcient II u d low estimate then. which places
the French demand Tor wheat ~ 100000, 900
bushels. The rest Of Europe VIII probably
need u, 600, 900 more. but may need less.
The food supply Of a continent u not thing
to be easily reduced to figures. Moderate esti-
mates. however. place the demand Ut larger
figure than the amount Of the pronnhle surplus
In this coun.ry.. 1t will probably oil be needed.
nut our authority il not likely that It will DO
called for ~ high, prices. This IL tho present
outlook. Very triflIpg causes may change the
existing condition of affairs In favor 81 high
prices. One thing is certain: no crop Of wheat
ever harvested In this cuntry will be carried to
rko NJ ,praO hAnnlv md fharafnra xuf
cave larger margin Of profit In the hands Of
tho farmerA