Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-09
AMERICAN WHEAT PROSPECTS.

The Department of Agriculture at wash
ington has been making tabulatlon from
available statistics relative to the average
amount of wheat consumed for food IN the
United States during the past five years, to-
gether with the average amount required
for seed and average exports during that
time. The figures show the average home
consumption to have been 233, 139,7S6 bush
els per annum, and the amount required
for seed so, ,SOO, ,O6O bushels, while the exports
averaged 45,274,G7S bushels, making the
total average annual consumption OF Amer
can wheat during that period Az, 9,2l4,329
bushels.
The statistics for 1882 show that the total
crop was about 4O4 ,000, 900 bushels, of which
246,OOO, 900 were consumed at home, upwards
of which 51,0 900 were used for seed ana
1873, 900, 900 exported, leaving on hand sur
plus of nearly 54,000,OOO to make up def
ciencies, if there be any, in the present
years crop. The departments estimates
for the present year place the crop at about
1875 ,OOO, 900 bushels, which is tritle over the
average consumption of the past five years,
although not equal to last years consump-
ton by 1G,OOO,OOO. The years production,
however, taken in connection with the
fifty million surplus carried over from last
wear. will amply suffice for all home re-
auirements and an export demand as great
as we have ever been called upon to fill in
any one year.
it will be impossible to predict prices for
the coming season until the condition OF the
European crop is more accurately y known.
There is sure to be a large export demand,
but whether it will be drawn from this
country at present or higher than present
prices can only be determined when the
extent of the Russian and India crops avail
able for export are known. tits known that
the English commercial interests are strain
ING every nerve to SO increase transporta-
ton facilities in their Indian possessions as
to make Indian wheat formidable COM
petitOr with that of American for the Eu-
rOpean markets. Russia has been smartlng
under the superiority Of our methods OF
cultivation and transportation tor some
years and is making heroic effort TO get
back the trade she has lost and it is possible
NAV succeed to some extent. The problem,
therefore, resolves itself into one OF com
parative expense. We have the wheat to
spare and Europe wants. The price at
which we shall be compelled to sell 1T Will
depend on how cheaply Russia and India
can supply the European demand.
WANTS A STATED. w. Sexton, Esq,
of Windsor, Ontario, has written to the Ag-
ricultural Department to ascertain If ten
million acres of land in this State can be
bought. He wants all in one body, located
on the coast, and would not care If it en-
braced parts of other States. The purchase
is desired for colonization purposes: There
are about 100000 acres of land in the
whole State of South Carolina, and If this
wild land speculator from the realms OF
Great Britain is in dead earnest, and he can
command the money, why the Governor
will have to call the Legislature in extra
session and save the State by eXhuming. the
Monroe doctrine and establishing it along
the coast to keep off this land grabber. Or,
probably this Sexton is seeking vast GEM
etery for the British dead of Her Majesty's
army when they come over to enforce the
payment of Confederate bonds. Or, he may
not have heard that Democratic rule is of
force in South Carolina, and thinking that
Chamberlain's crew is still in power, con-
cludes that in this time the State has either
been stolen or is for sale for taxes The
proposition Will remain in abeyance until
the return of Colonel Butler from Marion,
when it is to be hoped that he will give no
encouragement to such bold, bad scheme,
Columbia Register.