Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-20

I the previous estimate Of 800, 200, 900 bush
els, at IA per cent, leaving crop Of 2e5,
100000 bushels, while the decline II
spring wheat Is estimated at Is per cent.
leaving probable yield Of l27, SOC, 90
bushels Thus the outlook July / &C
cOrding 10 the departments report, JUST
1ed expectation Of crop Of 423, 00O, 00i
bushels 10 all, and the question now Is how
much additional damage was done by thi
iniolerable hot weather and drought dur
Ing the first week Of july. As was re
marked Friday, while the injury seems Il
have been severe, II was apparently con
I fined 20 q part Of the territory whict
should yield ABOUT half the spring wheat
crop, and there Is no reason as vet "a
suppose that the loss will prove Is much
as $4,000, 900 bushels. But uuiil the crop
has been harvested the farmers Of North.
ern Iowa, Southern Wisconsin aud Min.
mes u, snd Southern Dakota will watch
the weather With unusual interest
The question - also OF some impor.
lance 70 the railroads which penetrate
that belt--the st. Paul and the Chicago (
Northwestern. Roughly speaking, the
people Of that region require for food and
seed about 20,0O0,000 bushels OF wheat,
and with a crop of 50,OOO, 900 bushels
they can send away $4,000, 600. Bot II
tbey have LOST over half of tie whole they
Will have little or none TO move by rail
4 loss Of 20 per cent. Of the yield TO the
farmers would mean to the railroads Of
tnat section loss Of all their wbeattrafic,
and a difference Of 10000, 900 at fifteen
cents bushel Is no small item. 10 Kan.
sas also, the winter-wheat crop IL short,
haa hgau a.
prospect for full movement appears
favorable.
For consumers, the question Is still
Just wnere Il was--whether a market Gao
% found Tor as much a. 01,000,0 900 bush
els OF new wheat aud for a surplus Of
SO,OOO,0OO bushels carried over from last
year. Unless consumers aud producers
DOth lose their heads, there Is no occasion
10 look for starvation prices this year
greater demsnd from abroad than il yet
ioreshadowed Is needed to clear away the
surplus, even II the yield should fall as
low as 800, O0o, 900.
IL may be noticed that the reports from
India have changed curlously Of late
Two months ago II was said that the de.
;rease in wheat acreage In India was 2,
100000, which would mean large de !
cline In the yield. But the latest returns |
Indicate that the decrease In all India j, |
not more than 100000 acres. In In, |
Puuj4b the probable decrease of yield. |
Judging from the acreage and the latest
'epOrts, Is not more than |
J, 100000 bushels; in the northwest
PROVINCES and Oudh, the Bombay presi-
lency, the Central provinces and Berar,
he yield officially reported is ,OOO, 900
bushels less than last year, and the re-
nsiniDg provinces produced about TO-
100 600 bushels, and will be apt to turn
'nt nearly as much, so that there does
lot seem TO be reason to expect de-
rease Of more than Is, 900, 900, or Z per
emit, In the aggregate Yield The latest
dyices from England are not favorable
Or the growers Of that country, but the
rice at country markets has not yet so
hanged az 20 Indicate belief in sny ma.
'rial decrease in the output.