Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-06-21

AUSTRALASIA as well as ELSEWHERE, but
very high prices will be the best of
evidence that the world is short of
bread and ready to take all that can
be offered. Only the southern border
of the Australian continent is adapted
to wheat growing, the mass of the
continent being too near the equator,
, and subject to fierce drouths.
On the other hand, New Zealand
is one of the best of wheat countries,
the acreage yield being exceeded only
by that of Great Britain; yet the
area in wheat had, up to 1887, never
exceeded 10000 acres. The great
industry of all AustraIasian colonies,
including New Zealand, is pastoral
rather than agricultural, and such it
} is likely to continue to be where, as
in most of the colonies, the rainfall is
very irregular as well as deficient.
Americans are given to thinking
that they are the only people invent
, ing and using improved agricultural
implements, but the Australian does
not seem to lag, as he has, among
other things, put "stripper" in use
, which gathers only the heads of the
} wheat, and is said to gather, thresh,
fan and sack the wheat at one opera
| ton at the rate of s to 10 acres per
| day, and at cost of 75c to $1.25 per
r acre, making it possible to profitably
grow wheat in "South Australia"
: where lilo bushels per acre is the
? average. From all that is known of
. Australasia, with its limited popula.
5 ton (4,0O0,OO0), it is evident that
| Europe cannot be supplied with
bread from that source for many a
f year.
/ Chilli is narrow, mountain belt,
skirting the Pacific with very limited
= arabic areas, and cannot greatly in
4 crease its cereal products, while other
4 South American countries, and the
# tropical islands, are constantly in.
creasing their drafts upon the CHILEAN
J surplus.
e The Argentine Republic has, by
the "Board of Trade" men, been
a credited with an enormous capacity
e for wheat growing, but as yet does
e not produce large surplus, an aver
t age being 100000 to 100000
S bushels, or one-third that of Kansas
e Doubtless the exports of wheat from
: that country will ultimately be large
,, but with population of less thar
It 100000 it is not likely to assume the
s place of an exporter of wheat, which
: we shall vacate long before the close
: of this century.
II The area of Argentina is about hal
I that of the United States, with {
population less than was ours ion
II years since, and certainly no more
II enterprising and progressive. Wher
y Argentina has large amount o
u wheat for expectation we shall neeC
part it.
In view of the fact that we mus
- soon cease to supply the require
ments of South America ard tn,
:, islands of the Caribbean Sea, Argen
tina will do remarkably wei
:, to meet the demands from
10 such quarters, so that after
70 very few years Europe need not lool
:, to either South or North America 70
u any part of the needed supplies.
= Since the death of James Card, Mr.
|, H. Rains Jackson is probably TIN
:, best English authority on this sub
- ject, and to show that / am not alon
10 in looking for high prices in bread
stufS, l quote the following from
recent communication to "Dorn
busch," wherein he says:
i "While foreign competition ha
at depressed wheat, some of the depres
re sion is due to the poverty of Englis
n markets. In fact, the Spectator esti
or mates the loss to English farmers i
ed recent times, from low prices and de
re cline in land values, at $4,000, 900, 0O
at Which of the wheat. produC
n ing countrses is producing more tina
Ie. ten years ago? America in 1890 hs
adj ? about the same wheat area as in 1881
On Canada making considerable promi
ca es in recent years, has not futile
~ them in respect to exporting whea
at Egypt sends now but trifing quaint
at ties. Spain is no longer represente
ed as source of wheat or flou
nv France, which once forwarded niue
CO best flour to the United Kingdom
~ scarcely sends now a sack. GEL
tie many still sends of its best whea
- perhaps 100000 bushels in the las