Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-09-20
WILL WANT FOR BREAD.
Worlds Wheat Crop Over 100000
Bushels Short.
GlOOmier Outlook Owing TO the Failure
OF the Potato Crop.

New YoRK.-The Times prints .ha fol
lowing from London: 1T nov seems go
be fact that the old world needs from
rocco, 600 to 100000 bushels of wheat
more than the harvest OF the year will
produce. To put it in another way, the
countries which always have to buy some
370,000,000 bushels, while the countries
raising more than they consume will have
about 295,OG0,O0O 10 sell.
The annual international grain market
held in Vienna on Monday, gave estimates
of the yield of the world, which varied
only few particulars from those already
given, the chief differences being in I'M
important countries. On the other hand
the real state of the French harvest seems
much worse than reported at Vienna,
and the same is even more obviously true
of England. The recent terrific Storm Of
wind and rain ended whatever chance re-
manned of decent crops in Great Britsin,
and the English must now import at
at least 100000 bushels. France,
which, next to the United States, is the
greatest wheat producer in the world, has
one of the worst crops ever leaped. A
week ago it was estimated that she would
need to import 6S,000,000 bushels. Now,
S4hC0 buS lISSA SlOIul anu NnS discovery
of the first dressings of the bad quality
of the grain, the shortage is put at 96,
100000.
What makes the matter worse is, that
very little, if any, of this can be made by
Algiers, where the grssshoppers have
decimated the crop. We understand here
that the United States and Canada can be
counted on TO supply about 1O3 100000
l1v7sb al on 600
35,000,O00, buG in these latter countries
there is much more uncertainty than in
the former. From all Russia, for instance
there are all sorts of reports, lstterly
quite unfavore Die, and from India it Is
more difficult to get the truth. But train
ed experts here believe the above figures
to be tolerably correct.
In any case, If these crops turn out
larger than here estimated, the daily in
creasing evidence of bad quality and
light weight of the crop in western
Europe will quite balance the gain. Wish
such large deficit as this in the worlds
market, it is evident that somebody mUst
cut down the consumption of bread, and
thaS there will be fierce competition for
the possession of the grain markets on
the continent, which have been showing
an almost steady raise for the last 10
days, with few fluctuations resultant upon
declines in America. As a rule, prices
have been highest and advanced sharper
in Paris than elsewhere, but yesterday
London and some English provincial
markets distanced any other spurts of
of the season by q sudden advance of
from six to nine cents per bushel upon
last weeks prices for foreign wheat.
Already the north err workhouse au-
thorities have their hands full with an
army of Irish laborers, who are accus-
toned to come TO England for the
harvest. This year they find no work
for them to do, and the lsborers have no
means to get home with. What adds to
the sinister aspect of the outlook is the
sad failure of the potato crop in many
parts of England and ali along the west
coast of Ireland. This alone would have
made q bad winter here, but combined
with dear bread, ii is gloomy enough
outlook.