The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-06-05


tho croakcrs Would Have Us neiicve--A
Glimpse All Along the Line.
NEW York, May 25-In the presen,
depressed condition OF all branches Of
business, the crop prospects, oI
paramount interest at all times,
acquire an additional interest, and
the reports Of damage TO our winter
wheat caused considerable alarm
throughout the country. Both the Official
and the amateur statIsticans are con-
stantly figuring out how big will be our
shortage In winter wheat, and, II we are
10 believe advertisements, we might
think that WE shant have bushel to
spare this year OF course most OF the
statisticians dab5ie In the grain market,
and probably get up the figures to
suit their books, so that their
statements can not be implicitly
relied upon. That the winter wheat has
been injured can not be questioned; but
the extent OF the injury can certainly
not be figured out At presents; and the
season having been backward all over the
world, II remains TO be seen what Mother
Nature will do In the next month or two
toward re-establishing natural state of
1Aaitr. ~ uul tdcts Tue accumulation OIL
wheat all over the world il 90 large that
there Is not the slightest danger that hu.
mainly will run short OF bread, or even
have 10 pay more for II. The best proof
OF this Is that, alarming reports not
withstanding, the price OF wheat in our
leading markets Is keeping steadily down
and does not advance even on all the false
reports OF shortages In wheat in other
countries.
In the last two or three weeks mum.
bers OF kilograms have insinuated 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. But here are facts
gathered from the best financial aud CON-
mercial articles OF the London press:
In India bountiful wheat harvest has
already been gathered In.
la Australia the yield is Tar above the
average.
New Zealand was visited by rain
storms In the middle OF the harvest, and
has thus partially lost the advantage OF
IN extra ine crop.
In Great Britain the dry weather OF
April began TO be threatening, but the |
frequent showers which have set III since |
seem 10 have allayed all the apprchcn-
sions OF the farmers In regard 10 hay, The |
prospect 81 which seems 10 have been |
discoura.ing. As is the
'ase In this country. the season is /
bout month backward in ENGLAND; but I
he agriculturists say that the showers OF I
Nay prove TO have been just as beneficial \
IS those which should have come in
April. All that seems 10 be wanted is
warm weather for six or eight weeks.
nd II IN. predictions OF weather pro-
'hcts, both here and abroad, are worth
Inything. the world Is going to have IL
cry warm indeed. II appears from re-
'orts that there Is not to-day a single
rop In Great Britain which is
ct In promising condition
he wheat crop has looked
yell all through the winter and spring,
cling none the worse for backwardness
y everywhere a full plant Of healthy
DIOR and well over Ire ground. Accord
~ 10 the Daily Ne,cs, OF London seven
lrmers who, as a rule do not take a
ingnine view Of crop prospects, gencr-
liy admit that they hsve seldom seen 50
ne promise Of bounteous harvest
The dry April seems to have affected
le south OF Russia as II did Great
ritain; but, according TO the ST. Peters
urg papers, showers came TO the rescue,
nd the grain growers. who at one time
lowed . disposition TO keep the old crops
ick, began freely to sell II again. Ii
ems. therefore, that In no part OF the
obc need w0fkingmen apprchend an
Vance In the price OF bread; aud II
cad goes down, IL will drag down with
the price OF all the other articles OF
cd, make workingrien all the better OF,
ID ultimately revive the manufacturing
ID industrial interests.
All the talk about Inc farmers suffering \
ON the fall IN the price OF grain Is non
nsc. To begin with. when wheat drags
her commodities down, farmers get
ore OF them In exchange for It, and then ,
ey can easily change from year TO year !
cir system Of culture. There Is no ,
rthly reason why American farmers
ould insist upon increasing their pro-
ction Of wheat when they see that New
'aland, Austria, India or Russia can I'M
rscll them IN the markets OF the world.
le point Is 10 knock out OF the American
rmer's head tie obsolete idea that this
untry u the only sranary In the world.
Our corn will always ind an increasing
mand. With the exception Of Russia, 4
Il the Danubian region. we are the !
ly producers Of II. But wheat Is grown
erywhere.