The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-10-20
TIE WoRLp.s wHEAT.

THE WORLDS WHEAT.
The staticians are very kind in tabu:..
lating the food products of the world,
They generally turn up enough to sat-
isfy the wants of the great human fan1s
ily. The worlds family is large one.
The lowest estimate is 100000 and
the highest 16OO,OOO,OOO. It requires Al
vast amount of provender to satisfy
the appetites of the people. Provi-.
dence and the industrious part of the
family can always be counted upon to
produce a sufficient supply. Theirs
may be whole or partial failures of this
or that crop in this or some other por7
ton of the world, but when the aggre
gate is all gathere1 it has always been
found that enough was raised to sus-
tain the life of the people. Of course
the products are never evenly distrib-
buted Some go hungry even when
surrounded by surplus of everything
essential to satisfy hunger. In most of
these cases the fault is personal one.
An ancient book has laid it down as an
inexorabIe law of right and justice
that the able bodied who do not labor
shall not eat. This law is often viola
ted than enforced, but it leaves the
hungry well man excuseless.
The agricultural department at
Washington has just put forth table
of the worlds wheat and its require
ments for 1884, based, of course, on
the estimates of staticians of more or
less renown. Mans principal article
of diet has always been bread in some
form, though sacred history declares
we shall not live by bread alone. What
is produced in nearly all parts of the
arabic world. About one-half of the
countries of the world produce a sur
plus above home requirements, while
the other half falls short after doing
its best to meet it's demands in this
particular. Under the wise law of
compensation the surplus countries
usually have enough to satisfy the
countries where there is deficit.
Most of the European countries, espe-
cially the more prominent ones, fail to
produce enough wheat for their own
people. The only notable exception is
Russia, which usually has a larger sur
plus for export than any other. That
is her condition this year. The wants
of the countries producing no wheat at
all are estimated for the current sereal
yeSr at 100000 bushels. It is proba-
BILE that some wheat is produced in
most of these countries, but not enough
to count for much.
The wheat products and require
ments of the world for 1894 are esti-
mated as follows;
Requirements, bushels .............a. $40 700 900
Product. 3oz coo COO
Deficit ....-.................. $500 900
It is always easier to make out closer
estimates on the requirements than on
the product, but it is utterly impossible
to approximate exactness under either
head. Crops are seldom over estima-
ted. Some lots are invariably over
looked. Even if the deficit should be
as great as shown their is the large car
ry over stock to dray upon which is
considerably more than enough to Gov
er the deficit. Besides little change
in the diet on the part of the great ar
my of bread eaters for month would
neutralize the above difference. Great
Britain shows the greatest dependence
It is estimated that she will require
100000 bushels. It will take the
surplus of the United States and Rus
STA. two of the greatest wheat produc-
ing countries of the world, to satisfy
the deficit of the United Kingdom.
France is put down as needing 10000
600 bushels and other European coun-
tries from 100000 to 24,O00 900 bushels
The fact that substitutes for wheat are
so readily found accounts for the ap-
parent indifference of these alleged
needy countries bidding against each
other for the worlds surplus.-St. Jo-
seph Herald.