The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-07-27
All LOOK TO AMERICA.

England, Franco and italy Must Depend
ON This Country for Their Bread-Rc-
cent Reports from Bombay Show That
tho wheat Crop in India Is Almost
I Failure.
LONDON, July 17-Monday's weekly re-
port from Bombay by cable settles the TACT
that the Indian wheat crop will be no factor
at all in the question of the worlds foou
supply this year. And there is n sudden and
anxious effort now being made to get at
the facts upon which to base an estimate OK
what the worlds crop will really be like.
A number of the best informed English
specialists have been seen and they believe
that the situation, n few months hence, will
be fully as bad as it was last year. One or
two say they expect 1t to be worse or
course the state nf European crops is still
susceptible to certain fluctuations, ana
can not be accurately mapped out until tho
annual seed fair at Vienna, which, owing to
the general anxiety this year, has been ad-
vanced to August "a. But while climatic
contingencies may injure good crops, they
will be able to do little to improve these al
ready doomed, and the condition in 0c-
tober is more likely to be worse than bet
ter.
The demand for wheat in the big pur-
chasing countries of Europe bids fair to
be smaller than usual England and France
promise harvests considerably better than
last year As the fields and stocks now
stand the yield of these two countries is
expected to be 40,000,0O0 bushels in OK
cess of that of last year. Spain will also be
above the average and Italy only trifie
under. Germany, east of the tenth paral-
lei, is almost as good-perhaps the present
weather will make her quite as good-as
last year. But there the favorable picture
abruptly stops.
Two great exporting countries, Russia
and Austro- Hungary, will this year find it
difficult to feed themselves. Russia which
had big harvests the last two years. and
''forced" the market to get rid of all its
grain in order to float loans the last of
which was concluded the other day, now
confronts rather serious situation. Her
big granaries, like those of Odessa, have
never before been so empty of wheat and
the present crop in many large districts is a
complete failure.
The long drouth and then the oyclonic
storms which destroyed the wheat and oar
prospect in Russia have done the same for
wheat rye and barley in Austro-Hungary,
Roumania and Eastern Germany. In short,
though crops west of the tenth parallel are
quite definitely better than in 1888, this is
more than balanced by the failure in the
far more important grain fields east of that
line.
England, France and Italy must alr;avs
buy so much grain that tho question exact
ly how much they need is not specially i'm
portant, but the failure OF big exporting
countries is serious, considering -ir; col
lapse of India and the very 3encient crops
of Australia.
1t is avw estimated here by experts that
Sne eastern hemisphere, as n whole, is
worse off than it was n yeGr ago Mt this
time. There is, therefore, almost fearful
interest in what the American crop will be
like. The shortage over here will be so great
that the market will be more at the mercy
OF the United States than ever before, and
the next report from the Washington
bureau is eagerly watched for as an indi-
cation of how severe a squeeze may be eX-
pected During the last few days Russian
wheat has been going up here and panic
is only prevented by the fact that every
body in America seems so confident