Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-27

! NOIh III DAhO1A
mates received here America will have
barely 2OO, 100000 bushels for export.
About 100000 bushels of this will
probably go to China and India.
Reporters have visited all the prom
inent merchants, both in Mark Lane
and at the Baltic exchange, to get the
estimates estimates of the deficiency
of the wheat harvest in the principal
countries of Europe, and the probable
amount each country will require from
America. Private reports received
from reliable sources by the principal
operators in wheat are much more eX-
peditious than the government expects
though of course the figures given now
are liable to some alteration when the
harvests are announced in official fig
ures. Wheat operators in London are
divided between two exchanges.
Mark Lane buys chiefly in samples the
bulk Of it's business being confined to
British harvests. The Baltic buys in
cargo and deals mainly with import
wheat.
| WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW.
The following figures are derived
from both sources. They are based on
the most favorable estimates possible
upon harvests yet ungathered. The
great bulk of wheat is still in the fields
and there are fully three weeks yet to
count on.
The grain usually harvested in Aug
ust will not be touched this year until
| September. If the weather turns fine
the wheat crops in England and France
may reach somewhere near an average.
If it continues wet and unsettled, as at
present, the outlook for the farmers on
this side the Atlantic will be discoura-
ging and matters will be made much
worse. The figures given are based OH
the assumption that the remaining
three weeks of the harvest weather
will be fine. Probably this is assum-
ing too much, as all this week England
has been afflicted with a succession of
severe storms of thunder, lightning
and pelting rain. In some districts
the crops are half under water. Lon
! don and vicinity have been without
sunshine. Reports received from Ger
many and France are just as bad. In
Paris it has rained 142 days already
this year. Reports received to-day
from Ireland say that heavy rains and
high winds have done tremendous in
jury to the crops, and that harvest op-
erations>have been suspended. The
blight has appeared again among the
potatoes. Even the new seed supplied
by the government in the spring is af-
fected.
WHEAT CROP IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Taking things at the best the wheat
crop of Great Britain will hardly reach
an average Of $4,000, 900 bushels. 1t is
easy to find wheat operators who say
that it did not yield more than 60,00O,-
bushels this year, but this is probably
under the estimate. When England
produces 72,000,O00 bushels must i'm
port 140 100000 bushels more to feed it's
own population. Its principal source of
supply is America, Russia and India.
Russia generally exports 100,000,000
bushels of wheat. This year it will
not export more than 6O,0OO,OO0. The
reports that Russia will put an export
tax on wheat are declared absurd by
London spectators. Wheat is the
chief production Russia has which it
can readily turn into gold, and it will
sell all it can, even under the most
pressing privation among the peasantry
But the Russian ukase on the expor-
tation of rye goes into practice next
Thursday. Its effect on Germany
Austria and other countries where
black bread is the staple article of food
among the poorer people is going to be
very bad. No such stringent measure
that has been adopted since the Cri-
mean war.
Next to Russia itself the country to
suffer most and at once is Germany ,es-
pecially Prussia. To Germany, rye is
the staff of life, it not only eats what it
grows-22O, 100000 bushels--but i'm
ports largely from Russia. This source
cannot be replaced.
Austria-Hungary comes third in the
production Of rye. Its total growth is
l30, 100000 bushels. 1t can give no aid.
In Germany the price of rye has risen
rapidly and bread must become dearer.
Germany is holding cabinet meetings