The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-07-20
THE WHEAT CROP.
Some opinions as to Yield and Prices.

From the Baltimore american Wheat
will probably be much higher in October than
it is now, higher than at the corresponding
period in 1888. If the crop reports from
abroad are to be relied upon, there has been
a general failure in India and Australia-the
granaries which supply the principal part OF
the deficit in Great Brtain-and Russia,
Roumania, Austria, Austria Hungary and
Eastern Germany will scarcely make enough
to meet their own wants. The crops in Great
Britain and France are up to the average, but
neither makes enough for the home demand.
Russia and the neighboring states have here
tofore for some years entered into successful
| competition with this country to supply the
| European market, and Russias surplus has
been the basis for the recent financial opera
tons on the bourses of Europe, but she will
| have to look elsewhere this year for the means
with which to buoy her credit.
A special to the Inter Ocean from Grafton,
Oak, says: The wheat crop of Dakota is
| 80, O00, 900 bushel short. The total produc-
ton for the Territory cannot, under the best
possible conditions from now until harvest,
which will begin by the 18th, exceed 10000
/ 600 bushels, and to put it that high is liberal
estimate, The greatest detriment has been
the exceedingly dry season, and only along
the streams will there be any crops at all. 1t
is altogether likely that outside of the Valley
! of the Red river, all the grain grown will not
! fill 500 cars. The best crops, and in fact the
only fair yield will be in the counties of Penn
bna, Walsh, Grand Forks a small portion of
/ Trail, the center of Cass and Northwestern
Richland Elsewhere the ground is as bare
and almost as brown as though a prairie fire
had crossed IT, In Nelson county, famously
prolific, wheat will not yield as much grain
as was seeded. Ramsey is bare, except in
the immediate vicinity of Devil Lake. Along
the main line of the Northern Pacific in the
once famous bonanza farm district the eleva-
tors are closing up. Nowhere in Dakota will
there be any wheat for export save along the
main line of the Manitoba road from a point
thirty miles north of Fargo, the boundary.
The cry of famine will find its echo the CON-
ing winter.
John McDougal's paper on "Indiap
Wheats," published on June IA in the London
journal of the Society of Arts, has given. rise
to a considerable discussion in England among
the grain brokers. traders and millers. Mr..
McDougall takes the ground that it is only the
dirty condition of Indian wheat that prevents
it from getting possession of the English
market, to the almost total exclusion of other
foreign wheats. Mr.. MeDougall argues that
India production of wheat would be lin
tied only by the European ability to take it,
in case u purer article were exported" Even
as it is, with impurities amounting to from
FIVE to six per cent, the importation of Indian
wheat has increased in thirteen years from
little over one per cent to nearly seventeen
per cent. Of the total quantity imported an
nually by Great Britain. The impurities arise
from the dust and dirt of the earthen thresh
ing floors, where, with few exceptions, the
wheat is trodden out by cattle. At the pres
ent time England imports nearly seventy per
cent. Of the wheat required for consumption
each year, nearly all Of which, because of its
fine milling quality and lower price, Mr.. Nc
Dougall thinks. would be derived, but for its
dirty condition, from the Indian supply,
American machinery and the greater facilities
in the United States being offset by the cheaper
Indian labor.