The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-08-26
London Letter.
European Crop Prospects.
LONDON, England, July 30, 1888


LONDON, England. July 30, 1889.
! AT time when 1t Is known that the wheat
crop IN the United States is the largest since
1880 and larger, perhaps, than the splendid
yield Of that year, it will be interesting to
some OF your readers to learn of the crop
prospects in Europe which so materially at
feet the American grain market
The trade for foreign wheat otf.stands IN
London has been checked by finer weather.
large spot supplies, and declining values in
the United States. Business has been re-
stricted, and values we're weaker ON Wednes
day and on Friday than on the previous Mon
day, and, although they remain nominally
unchanged, some concessions to buyers have
occasionally been made. At the close OF Fri
days market some holders became s.eadier IN
their demands, probably on account of the
otf.eoast supply having for the moment run
out All things considered, however, the pc.
aition OF the trade must be considered weaker
at the close of the week than at the com.
mencenent. The supply to the port of Lon.
don down to FRIDAY had been unusually
heavy, namely, 293,16O bushels from India,
e70,14 bushels from Russia, 176 1874 bushels
from Australia and New Zealand, and 1885, 32
bushels from U. s. Atlantic ports After the
heavy thunderstOrms which occurred during
the early days of the past week the rainfall
has been but slight, and the weather has been
for the most part sultry and overcast The
nights have been more or less chilly and the
hazy evenings and mornings have been of
quite an autumnal character. During the
month of July the weather has been broken
and unsettled, and Its influence on the wheat
crop has been mostly of an untavOrable char.
acter The month of July has naturally much
to do with the ultimate result OF the harvest,
but the condition of the wheat plant as il
stands at the close of the month is the out
come Of series Of adverse influences COM
mencing with the end of March, and to which
the weather of July has but formed the part
which has given the finishing touches to the
whole. There probably has rarely been q
season mO:e perslstently adverse to the proper
development OF the wheat, and July closes
without the ground having once become
warm During the present week, should the !
weather permit, the earlier portions of the |
crop Will be cut south Of a line drawn from
the mouth of the Severn to the Wash, and IN
the second week OF August wheat harvest
may be expected t2 become general south of
The Humber. Toward the close OF the past
week the wheats have whitened fast for har
rest, and the records of the threshing machine
Will soon take the place of remarks on the
standing crop. Spring corn, on the whole,
las been benefited by the month OF July, and
he oat crop seems likely to prove the best of
he cereals in English counties The trade
or English wheat has come almost to a
tandstill from the scarcity OF newly threshed
amples on offer, and native wheats have
maintained level of values which is rela-
lively about 81; cents per bushel higher
han that of foreign equivalents In western
europe the early part of the week was stormy, L
nd in the South Of France-where harves,
las been completed-the newly threshed d,
wheat has come to market in very poor con-
Ition. In Germany the earliest threshings
the new crop Of rye are SAID to be causing
much dissatisfaction, the quality of the grain
aliing short of the expectations formed of II.
leavy rains fell on Friday in Austria, and
GODS have occurred in the Danubian prov
noes, and in Hungary, doing grea, damage
D the crops. L
Many bodily ills result from habi.ual constipa !
on, and fine constitution may be broken and
lIned by simple neglect. There is no medicine
quail to Ayers Pills to correct the evil and 20 | ,