Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-24
ALL LOOK TO AMERICA.

| England. France and Italy Must Depend
on This Country for Their Bread-Re-
cent Reports from Bombay Show That
tho Wheat Crop In India Is Almost q
Failure.
LONDON, July 17.-Mondays weekly re-
| port from Bombay by cable settles the fact
| that the Indian wheat crop will be no factor
at all in the question Of the worlds food
supply this year And there is a sudden and
anxious effort now being made to get at
| the facts upon which to base an estimate Of
what the worlds crop will really be like.
A number of tho best informed English
| specialists have been seen and they believe
| that the situation a few months hence Will
be fully as bad as it was last year. One or
! two say they expect it to be worse. OF
course the state of European crops is still
susceptible to certain fluctuations, and
can not be accurately mapped out until the
annual seed fair at Vienna, which, owing to
the general anxiety this year, has been adj
| 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 tho condition in o.
| 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 4O,0O0,0O0 bush .ls in ex-
cess Of that of last year. Spain will also be
above the average and Italy only triHe
under. Germany, east of tho tenth paral-
lei, Is almost as good-perhaps tho 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 haryests the last two years, and
''iorced' 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 a 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 cyclonic
storms which destroyed the wheat and oat
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 always
buy SO much grain that the question exact
~ how much they need is not specially i'm
portant, but the failure OF big exporting
countries is serious, consid ering the col
lapse of India and the very deficient crops
OF Australia
1t is now estimated here by experts that
the eastern hemisphere. as a whole, is
worse off than it was year ago at 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 squeeze may be ex-
pected- During the last faw days Russian
wheat has been going up here and a panic
is only prevented by the fact that every
body in America seems SO confident