The Forrest City times., 1891-09-25
THEY MUST HAVE GRAIN.
EUROPE ON THE VERGE OF A
 MIGHTY FAMINE
ZAe Demand for wheat ana Corn will Be Unprecedented and
 Prices Win Go Higher.

NEW YORK, Sept 2e.-An exhaustive study of the worlds food sup ply in the forthcoming number of the American Agriculturalist emphasizes Facts of grave importance to both America and Europe. It declares that the half has not been told about the European shortage in bread stufls, which not even a bountiful crop this year would have believed.
 Continental powers, especially Rus sia, suppress the facts so far as possi. ble. In many Russian provinces the scarcity of food, became pronounced 80 far back as February last. In the Konstantlnovlsa district many families have not cooked meal since easter. but subsist on bread, soaked rye, grain, etc, bestowed in charity. The prohi- bition of rice exports is followed by a ukase forbidding the shipment of bran and other cereal cattle foods,
 The astounding shortage ln Kussia's yield of rye, announced a month since by the ministry of finance, proves even greater than the most extrava- gant estimates, and etfectually oblit- crates all possibility of Russia export ing any of her scant wheat crop. That SesoeSlh oCI lS III tAC same plight admits of no doubt.
 The European reserves that have heretofore eked out insufficient har- vests are everywhere exhausted The parade made by Russia of tho existence of such stores in the Baltic provinces is done for effect to convey the, inn pression that military stores are abundant. Such reserves are of small importance. Indeed, the danger of famine is destined to spare Europe the horrors of war for fully twelve months hence.
 Accepting the largest estimates of production, both at home and abroad and even assuming that the United States and Canada can export 225, ,oo0,- 900 bushels, there is a deficit in the worlds food supply of at least 200, ,ooo,- 900 bushels of wheat and rye, with a possibility of the shortage being twice as great. Added to this is the almost total failure of the potato crop in Ire land and serious curtailment in the yield of potatoes on the continent. Even with the utmost economy of dis tribution and an unheard of consump- tion of American maize grave distress is before the masses of Europe.
 Enormous exports of wheat and -four from the United States in August proves that Europe regards the situa- ton as worse than it has yet been painted. Otherwise, why should she buy in single month. close upon the harvest, nearly half as much wheat as she took from the United States dur ing the first eight months of the year following one of our largest wheat crops and period of bedrock prices?
 For the first time in years wheat bran and middlings are being exported to Europe this season.
 These circumstances are accepted as the strongest possible for believing that prices of wheat are unnaturally low. The paper quoted looks for a sharp advance in ..ll cereals as soon ns Europe realizes the limited extent of the worlds actual supply. Every bushel of ghgrade wheat is to-day worth fully $1 on the farm where it grew.
 One of the most marked features of the prosperity that is already upon American agrlculture, noted by the same paper, is the extent to which farmers are planning to unite in CO operative buying and selling.