The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-06
BREADSTUFFS FOR BRITAIN.

BREADSTUFFS FOR BRITAIN.
The Movement of Grain from the Various Sup
plying Countries to England-The British
Situation.
The New York correspondent Of the Chicago
Times says: The Beerbohm cable dispatch of
December reported the quantity Of whea;
and -four on passage to the United Kingdom as
2,O5O,OOO qrs I have before me George
Dornbusch's Floating Cargoes Evening List of
the same date, which gives the quantity as
-,475, 500 qrs., as follows. viz:
South Russia. 9 }4S,Sco
Egypt and India. ........................ 9a,0oo
Australia and New Zealand 4O3,OOO
talifornia and Oregon. 0OG
Atlantic ports. 4oo,oVV
OF the above total the flour souivsIent
}26, 900 qrs. say 10000 qrs. from Atlantiv
givos the dates of the clearance of each cargo.
and allowing four mouths passage from Aus
tralia, New Zealand and Chill, and four and
half months from California and Oregon-the
usual average time-there is due to arrive
from these countries in January 25o,O0c
900 crs. :; a total of i, OOO, BOO qrs., or an az.
crage of 1900 qrs weekly for thirteen
weeks The average weekly deliveries o:
homegrown wheat in the United Kingdom dur
,noted at 5000 qrs. Qs6,0OO qrs.), or
total of 2.34O,OOO qrs. The consump-
ton during the same period may d.
stated at 400, 900 qrs weekly, or total OF
3,98O,OOO. In tabular form these figures ap-
pear as follows:
Consumption January. Feb Quarters
ruary and March, thirteen
Deduct-Home-arown. ....2,34OOOO
Pacific Ocean. ....1 !. OOO. oO0-3,34O,OO 900
or st the rate Of 2O3,O77 qrs, or 1885
900 bushels weekly. Our late and present
weekly shipments from the Atlantic ports to
the United Kingdom average about this guam
tity. hence the arrivals from south Russia,
ars. or 2, 800, 900 bushels on passage thence
and nearly all Of which is due in the thirteen
weeks under review-will be so much surplus
age if the present volume of exports from this
coast be kept up Or course any imports of
wheat or -four from Germany, Spain, Hungary,
etc, would further increase this surplus; and
it is to be borne in mind that since September
the United Kingdom has added to it's reserve
about 100, 900 qrs, or upward Of 5000, 900
bushels; thus:
Net imports August % to December f.
rafmefs ?d THvai .ss9 o90,
Total supply, fourteen weeks 100000
Deduct consumption, fourteen weeks, at
100000 per week ....................6,44O ,O 600
Residue-1ncrease Of reserves. ....... 100000
Should the market 80 shape as to render still
greater abstention from buying on the part of
the British trade than has been exercised since
September l, the Use of this 76O, 900 qrs. of
reserves with the Russian, Danubian, Egyptian,
and Indian contingent of 2SO,OO qrs. and
tho 100000 qrs. from the Pacific coast,
would leave only about 500, 900 bushels for
weekly shipments required from this coast to
place the British trade in the same stock posi-
ton on April l: 1881, thatit occupied septem-
Der /, 1880. These figures are put forward
merely TO show the possibilities of the British
situation during the first three months Of the
approaching calendar year. By drawing upon
their reserves to the extent Of about 1,O6O,-
700 during the corresponding period last sea-
son, the British tired out and virtually broke
the back Of the s'American syndicate" and BY
using in like manner the reserves thus far &C.
cumulated, they might be able to deal Sc
eious blow to similar American pretensions
this season, were any such to be put forward