The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-09-15
Wretched Crops i'm France and Ger
many-A Review Ofihe Home
Outlook.

harvest seems much wors-
at VI. .nna, and the So
obviously srue OF r.
terrific s.ofm of "
~hatever chsnce
crops in Great Brita
must now import
bushels.
Franco, which ne
States is the greatest
the world, has one Of :.
ever reaped,
THE SHORTAGE Is PUT AT so 000
by the Mercnriale des Hailes,
000,0t0 b. Bollack, Sara-sm a.
makes the matter worse is that, ii
his can be made good 10y Agiers, W.
the grasshoppers have decimated
crop. w
Germany, Italy and the Eetherland,
must buy more wheat than usual this
year of the great exporting countries.
We understand here that the United
States and CsAada can be counted on to
supply about LOB COO, 100 bushels, Russia
90,OoO,o0O ard Irdia 35 100000 bushels.
But in these latter countries th.re is much
more uncertainty than in the former.
From Russia, for instance, there are all
sorts of reports, iatterly quite unfavor-
able, and from India il Is even more diff
cult to get the ruth. But trained ex perts
here believed the ADORE figures to pe toll
eraoly correct. In any case, if these
crops turn out larger than here estimated,
the daily increasing evidence or bad
quality ani light weig ht of crop in West
-rn Europe will quite balance the gain.
with such huge deficit as this in the
worlds market, equal to the entire wheat
crop In asgoud Year of such country as
Germany, it - evident that somebody
must cut down the cons um s'ion of bread,
| and that there Will be tercc cam petition
for the possession of the grain markets
on the contlnen', which have been show
ing an almost eaoy rise for the last ten
days, with few Huctnatious resultant upon
declines in America. AS rule prices
have been higher, and advances sharper
IN Paris than elsewhere, bus yesterday
London and some English provincial
markets d'stanced any other squirt OF tho
season by sudden advance OF from 6 to
8 cents per hushel u pom iass weeks price
for foreign wheat. This panic was palp-
pably due TO the drenchiug RAN and
heavy wind storms, a. in places where
he rain Was not violent prices showed
less change.
Il curiou-ly parocnlal affair, dependeE /
upon nlI sorts of local conditions and lu-
hueuces. Liverpool generally follows
New York anu San Francisco, but London
more uoncvrned In the Baltic trade and
not 80 easily moved by American quota
tIuns, Inn PROVINCIAL markets, like Leeds,
Rochester, aud Newcastle on Tyne, think
uI"sI OF the local crops and demand.
h-ucc prices tor the pass week have been
much gfi .cted Dy caprieious weather, q
bright oay trishtensnh buyers, heavy
RAIN stlffcuiug settlers; but yesterdays
storm has 50 hnocked out what renamed
of the English crop that this can not
longer be the case. Already we catch a
glln pse of what the wheat shortage means
10y the discovery that bread has gone up
ii penny on Il quarter loaf In many parts
OF Lonuua since Monday
l. "Ihe Northern workhuuse.
AurHoRIrIHs HAVE ruErg HANDS FULL
with "a quantity of Irish laborers, who are
sccus'omso to Some To England for the
harv,st. This year they fud no work for
them TO DO, aud the iaborers find no
means WIKI which TO get home.
what ADDS to- the sinister as pect of the
outlook is the sad failure of the potasoe
crop In many parts OF England and along
the west coast of ireland. This alone
would have made a pad winter here, com-
ointd with dear bread, it Is a gloomy
enough outlook.
One If ihe fret results of the shortage
VIII be- a vigorous demand in France for
a remission ot the lmp port duty op wheat
on the part of big towns. and "A strenuous
resistance by wheat raising districts
where the farmers see NO reason why the
tariff should Lot enable them TO profit by
the distress of their brethren in the
.owne."
The Times also prints many columns
of crop reports from all parts of the
Unite d States. In an editorial summary
Of them 1t says:
Judging from our special reports from
the wheat. prod ucing States published th,s
morning, the Uuit.d States will not he in
position TO furnish very muck of the
| 7o. .O0O, 900 or so 600 900 bushels of wheat,
which, according 10 our l. ndon CORE
spondent, will be required To- meet the
detic enc; caused by poor crops in
| the old world. The weather has been ua-
favorable here, rs in Europe, Ia large
harvests of the principal fooa cerrs.. but,
| so far "a can be leeru-d, We shall have
| ample wheat for home consumption, with
possibly some, If not great deal to spare
TO supply portion of the demand across
| the ocear. Indiana ard Wisco, sin ap-
| pear 10 be the only States in which the
| yield is above the average aao can he con-
sidsred really great one, In Ohio the
| crop is reported 10 be nos over CD per
cent. OF the average and of inferior quail
| ity; in Illinois the quality ~ not high,
though the quantity harvested is safisfac.
| tory, and in Kansas loss of fully one
thiro has been sustained by the negh-
! gence OF the farmers in protecting what
promised to be a fine wheat crop. With
the suffering expected in England and
/ the rise in the price of bread already
made there on account of the failure of
the wheat crop, and in anticipation of the
certain scarcity of that cereal in the i'm
mediate future, the United States is to be
congratulated upon the amount of wheat
really harvested in this country. Ii We
cannot feed the world, it Is pleasant to
know that we can feed ourselves. :.