The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-04
Tho European Hsrvests.

LONDON, ENGLAND, August Is, lSSO.-Fine
weather, with less rain, has enabled the farm.
ers of the home and southern counties to make
fair beginning OF the harvest. The wheat
crop this year will certainly be great i'm
provcment upon 1870, but the yield is likely
to be one of the most uneven character. The
markets OF the past week have been the sub
ject of slight retrOgrade movement, but trade
remains so susceptible to weather that the only
statement that can be made with fair assurance
of accuracy is that buyers will have the best
of a market reached along dusty road, and
The reactionary movement IN trade has been
confined for the most part to wheat and flour,
foreign descriptions Of which must be quoted
Cd. to Is. lower on the week per or. and sack
respectively. The pulse of the English wheat
trade Is now running SO slow and feeble it is
impossible to discern asy change. Deliveries
at several well.known marketc have stopped
altogether. The principal feature of the week
apart from the home harvest has been the
enormous export efforts OF the United States
Last week there started from the American
ports for the United Kingdom 1876, 900 qrs. of
wheat and 2G2, 800 qrs. Of MAIZE besides $4,000
bags of flour; and yet the American visible
supply has increased, and not diminished, un
der this strain. Shipments from America TO
the Continent are stated to have been $4,000
qrs. Of wheat and 10000 qrs of maize, but
until this telegram is confirmed by letter we
must accept this very remarkable piece of
news "under all reserves" The $4,000 qrs
may not lmprobably he = mistake for $4,000
qrs,, this cypher mistake having occurred be-
fore The price of wheat on passage has re.
ceded little during the past week.
The French have not had very settled wealth.
er for harvesting, but the showers have usually
been light, and IA large proportion of the har-
vest is now either cut or in process of beng
reaped, North of Paris wheat cutting has
only just begun, but in all the great wheat
districts to the south OF the capital real pro-
gress has been made. Deliveries Of the new
wheat are now coming in IN sufficient quant-
ties to allow Of "A fair abiaIon being formed
by milcrs and | hear a general chorus Of
praise rs to the apparent milling quality of
this years wheat The German wheat harvest
had begun q fortnight ago, but the rains have
interrupted work, especially In the west
ern provinces. The wheat and barley harvests
are expected to be close upon an average
though the result may yet be seriously affected
by unfavorable weather. In Austria the wheat
market Is steady; in Hungary trade is firm in
tone, and prices have slightly advanced. We
do not learn how this position of affairs may
be harmonized with the reported good wheat
crop of the dual empire. Algerian advces
inform us that barley is beng shipped for
Great Britain, chiefly for Glasgow and Lelth.
Wheat, however, finds Its way no further than
across to the Mediterranean, to Cette and Mar
settles. Egyptian wheat, at Alexandria, is
quoted Ais. Sd. per or. free on board. This is
too high a price for wheat OF poor quality,
such as Egyptian.