The Red Cloud chief., 1885-06-05
TIMELY TOPIC
The Oatieok for the worid's suppsy Of
BresAsfuns Not 50 GLOOMY ~ some os
the Cro.xerx Would Bavs~Cs seiieve-A
GiInp~e All Alon: the Liae.

the OatieoA for the worid's supply Of
BreaAstuHs Not SO Giocsny ~ some II
the Cro.xer~ Would Bav~Cs IBeiieSe-A
Glimpse All Along the Liae.
New YORK, May ?s--In the present
depressed condition Of all branches OF
business, the crop prospects, oil
paramount interest at all times,
,cauire an additional interest, and
the reports Of damage to our winter
wheat caused considerable alarm
throughout the country. Both the official
and the amateur siatisticians are con-
,tan,.y figuring out bow big will D. our
shortage in winter wheat, and, IL we are
TO believe advertisements, We might
think that we shant have Q bushel 10
spare this year. OF course most OF the
s,atis;icians dab1ie la thec grain market,
and probably get up the figures 10
suit their books, so that their
statements can not be implicitly
| relied upon. Tha, the winter wheat has
been Injured can not be questioned; but
the extent Of the injury can certainly
not be figured out al present; and the
season having been backward all over the
world, IL remains To be seen what Mother
Nature will do in the next month or two
toward re-es;ablishing 4 natural state OF
affairs. In ANY case, the accumulation OF
wheat all over the world is 50 large that
! there is not the slightest danger that hu-
manity will run short Of bread, or even
have TO pay more for 1t. The best proof
Of this 10 thai, alarming reports not
withstanding, the price OF wheat in u
leadin. markets Is keeping steadily down
and Ices not advance even on all the false
| reports Of shortages Ia wheat In other
countries.
In the last two or three weeks Nun
bers of kilograms have insinuatti that
the prospects Of the crops IN Europe are
Just as bad As they are here, and that
India and Australia have suffered almost
as much as Europe. OF course all this
was published for the purpose of put.
ting breadstuffs up. Blu here are facts
gathered iiom the best financial and COM
:~uercial articles of tie London press:
In India a bountifui wheat harvest has
already been gathered ia.
In Australia the yield is far above the
average.
New Zealand was visited By rain
storms in the middle Of the harvest, and
has thus partially lost The advantage OIL
an extra inc crop.
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April began to be threatening. but the
frequent showers which have set in since
seem TO have allayed all the apprehcn-
| sions OF the farmers In regard To hay, the
prospect of which seems TO have been
particularly discourag;ng. As is the
case in this country, the season Is
about q month backward in England; but
the agriculturists say that the showers OF
Nav prove To have been just as beneficial
as those which should have come In
April. All that seems to be wanted Is
warm weather for six or eight weeks,
aud II IN. predictions OF weather pro-
phets, both here and abroad, are worth
anything, the world Is going to have II
very warm indeed. 1t appears from re.
ports that there Is not to-day a single
crop in Great Britain which Is
not in n promising condition.
The wheat crop has looked
we'll all through the winter and spring,
being none the worse for backwardncss.
1t is everywhere a full plant of healthy
color and well over the ground. Accord
Ing TO the Daily Ne,rs, of London 'even
farmers who, as Il rule do not lake u
san.uine view of crop prospects,, gcner-
ally admit tina they have seldom seen SC
fine 4 promise of 4 bounteous harvest"
The dry April seems TO have affected
the south Of Russia as 1t did Great
Britain; but, according to the ST. Peters
Dur. papers, showers came 10 the rescue,
and the grain growers, who at one tim,
showed a disposition to keep the old crops
back, began freely to cell II again. IL
seems, therefore, that in no part of the
globe need wOrkincmen apprehend an
advance i'm the price of bread; and II
bread goes down, it will DRAG down with
it The price Of all the other articles oil
food, make workingmen all the better ID.
and ultimately revive the manufacturing
and industrial interests.
All the talk about the farmers sufcriaS
from the fall In the price OF grain Is non
sense. To begin with, when wheat drags
other commodities down, farmers get
more of them in exchange for Ii, and then
they can easily change from year To year
their system of culture. There Is no
earthly reason why American farmers
should insist upon increasing their pro-
duction of wheat when they see that New
Zealand, Austria, India or Russia can un-
dersell them in the markets of the world
The point is to knock out OF the American
farmers head tie obsolete idea that this
country is the only :ranary in the world.
Our corn will always find an increasing
demand. With the exception of Russia,
and the Danubian region. We are the
only producers of it. But wheat is grown
every where.