Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-08-31
Good for the Granger.
Tat Is, for the Granger of This
Country.
A BIG WHEAT SHORTAGE IN EUROPE

About 80. 900. 900 Bushels of the Cereal
More Than Uusuai Wanted This Year
A Gloomy outlook for the People VINO
Have to Live-England and the Conti-
pent Meet Serious Crop Reverses-Poor
Prospects of Supplying the Deficiency
Nrw Work Aug. 3l.-A Times London
special says:
ut now SEEMS to be fact that the Old
World needs from 70, 900 to 5000, 900
bushels of wheat more than the harvests OF
the year will produce. To put it in another
way the countries which always have TO buy
wheat must this year buy some 31O,00o,0O
bushels, while the countries raising more
than they consume will have about "a, Co.,
900 bushels to sell. Wednesday S
terrific storm of wind and rain ended what
ever chance remained of decent crops in
Great Britain, and the English must now i'm.
port at least 10, coo, 900 buseels.
France, which next to the United States is
the greatest wheat producer in the world,
has one of the worst crops ever reaped
week ago it was estimated that she would
| need to import 6s.0O0,000 bushels, Now
since the fresh storm and the discovery by
l
grain, the shortage is put at S0.UO0, 900 bush
els by The Mercuriae DIES Halles and at 96,
600, 00a by Bollack, Sarassin & Co Wha
max the matter worse is that very little
if any, of this can be made good by Aigiers
| where the grasshoppers have decimated thu
| crop
Germany, Italy and the Netherlands mus
buy more wheat than usual this year of tht
great exporting countries. We understan'
here that the United States and Canada cal
be counted on to supply about lo3,H0,Cc
bushels. Russia 90, 0jO, 900, and India 81, 900,
0tO bushes But in these latter countrie
there is much more uncertainty than in tn
former From Russia, for instance, Their
are all sorts of reports, latterly quite unfs
vorable, and from India it is even more diff
, cult to get the truth But uained expert
here believed the above figures to be tolera
bly, correct
with such a huge deficit as this in tn
worlds market, equal to the entire wbes
crop in good year of such country {
Germany, it is evident that somebody mu'
cnt down the consumption of bread, and tbs
there will be fierce competition for the po
: session of the grain markets on the continen
which have been showing an almost stead
rise for the last ten days. = Alread
we catch glimpse of what the wheat shor
age means by the discovery that bread HI
gone up a penny on quarter loaf in man
e parts of London since Monday.
r "The northern workhouse authorities hay
e their hands full with quantity of Irish Il
$ borers, who are accustomed to come TO En-
, land for tine harvest Tits year they find I
work for them to do, and the laborers hay
q no means with which to get home VIII
= adds to the sinister aspect of the outlook
the sad failure of the potato crop in mar
parts of England and along the west Goa
of ireland. This alone would have made
bad winter here; combined with dear brea
u it is a gloomy enough outlook"
The Times also prints many columns
: crop reports from all parts of the Unit.
States. In an editoria summary of them
| SAYS:
e Judging from our special reports fro
) the wheat producing states, the United Stat
[ will not be in position to furnish very mu
, of the Oo00,0o0 or sO,oO0, 900 bushels
wheat which, according to our London co
{ respondent, will be required to meet the 4
q ficiency caused BY the poor crops in the o
World The weather has been unfavo
able here, as in Europe. to lar
harvests of the principal food c
real, but so far as can be learned, we shs
have ample wheat for home consumptio
with possibly some, if not a great deal,
spare to supply a portion of the demal
/, across the ocean. Indiana and Visions
a pear to he the only states in which t
yield is above the average and can be CO
sidered really great one. In Ohio the or
: is reported to he not over 60 per cent. of I
average, and of inferior quality; in Him
the quality is not high, though the qua
u tity harvested is satisfactory, and in Ka
= sas a loss OF fully one third has be
sustained by the neg igence of the farme
in protecting what promised to be a f
t. wheat crop. With the suffering expected
# England and the rise in the price of bre
already made there on account of the ia
ure of the wheat crop, and in anticipate
/ Of the certain scarcity OF that cereal in t
d immediate future, the Unit d States is to
N congratulated upon the amount of Whe
" really harvested in this country II We q
!, not feed the world it is pleasant to KIN,
n that we can feed ourselves