Connecticut western news., 1880-03-10
The Grain Question.
THE UNITED STATES AS A WHEAT COUNTRY THE AMOUNT OF WHEAT RAIsED- WHAT IS DONE WITH IT ALL.

THE UNITED STATES AS A WHEAT ooUNTR, THE AMOUNT OF WHEAT RAISED
 WHAT IS DONE WITH IT ALL.
 A little over thirty years ago thu Springfield Repu6lioan notes tha grain was imported to this country from the Black Sea. During the crop yeal on which the country is just entering, | it claims that 1t is certain that 160, O00,. 900 bushels of wheat will be exported to Europe, and the amount may reach 200, ,O00,00 bushels. The grain is in this country the only question is one of demand. The demand last year from Europe was for 159, ,0OO. .0OO bushels out of crop estimated at APO, ,000, ,0OC bushels. The production this year is larger. It is one-fourth larger in Kansas; in Minnesota the production this year is 40,O0O, 900 bushels, large advance, over last year the grain fields of Southern Ohio show an unprece- dented yield so do those of Iowa and in Indiana the crop will. in some cases, pay for the ground on which it stands. The wheat acreage of the country is put at 31 ,000, 900 acres, an increase of one- fifth in two years. The average yield is placed at 12 bushels an acre, and the acreage at 31, ,0OO,O ,OOO acres, by Alexan- der Delmar, who wrote to the Tinaes in the close of July, after trip through the wheat fields of the West, ending at Ogden. The statistician of the New York Produce Exchange puts the aver age yield at from II to 12 bushels i; other more sanguine estimates carry it up to 13 or IA bushels an acre. The lowest estimate yet made places the crop ct 360, ,OO0, GOO, the largest at 440, ,000. .0OO, and crop of 420,O00, 900 may be reasonably counted upon. This is an increase in ten years of 193,000, 900 bushels in the annual wheat production of this country, and an increase nearly equal to the total wheat harvest ot twenty years ago. '+ Out of this years harvest, reckoning the population in this country at 4s,- 500, ,0OO persons, 194,O0O, 900 bushels will be needed for consumption and 50, 900, 900 for seed, in all 244,00O, 900 leaving, at the highest estimate, 196,, 900, ,000 for export, to which may be added 20, 900. 900 bushels left over from last years crop. Whether the Euro pean demand will be equal to the sur plus wheat in this country is considered by the Republican as doubtful. It will unquestionably equal last years demand, and the value of the breadstuffs exported during the coming year will probably reach $150, 1000, 900, and may rise to @ higher figure. The unknown quantity in the wheat supply of the world is Russia. It's harvest has been pro nounced far under the average for weeks past, but recent advices tell Q. different story. At best, however, nothing more than an average surplus for export is to be expected, not over 50, coo, 900 bushels; and if this is supplemented by the usual European import, 20,o00,00O bushels from Roumania, and 5,000,000 from Canada and Australia, the total supply which Europe is likely to receive from points outside of this country may be placed at 75.0O0,O00. The current de- fioiency in Europe is placed at from 225, 1000. GOO to 275, ,0oo. .000 bushels.
 The demand in England is clearly known. It will amount to bout 110,- COG, ,000 bushels. The demand in France can be less accurately estimated. All Northern Africa is in 6 state of famine, or is producing barely enough for its own supply, leaving nothing for export. The crops in Northern Italy have failed, and Italy is importing grain already, in- stead of exporting it, which closes an- other region from which France obtains grain. The potato crop in Northern France has generally failed, and the local food supply all over the republic is deficient. It is low estimate, then, which places the French demand for wheat at 100, 1000, 900 bushels. The rest of Europe will probably need 75,O0O,- 900 more, but may need less.
 The food supply of continent is not thing to be easily reduced to figures. Moderate estimates, however, place the demand at @ larger figure than the amount of the probable surplus in this country. It will probably all be needed, but our authority is not likely that it will be called for at high prices. This is the present outlook. Very trifing causes may change the existing condi- tion 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 more cheaply, and none, therefore, will leave larger margin of profit in the hands of the farmers.
 A Prince on Sentry Duty.
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