St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-21
TT is ENCOURAGING.
THE CROP OUTLOOK or UNCLE SIMS
DOMAIN FINE.
PRICE PRosPEcT EXCELLENT,
In Spite of the Prevailing Finan-
csaI Stringency-Tbe Grain,
However, Is Not Likely to Be
Moved to Market Very Rapid-
ly-The Foreign Demand Is
SDieudii.

New YORK, Aug. 2O--The following
Is a summary of the American Agricuit-
wrists annual review of the crop sltua-
ton and of the agricultural year:
The harvest of 1898 in the United
States is in many respects similar to
that of three years ago, but with every
prospect that home consumption and an
increased foreign demand will so adj
vance values as to yield as large net
return TO farmers as on the average of
recent years. Indeed, the review
makes distinctly encouraging exhibit
in spite of the prevalent drou1h. though
admitting that the financial stringency
may interfere with the early movement
of crops and have a temporarily restrict
i've influence on prices.
The Cotton Crop.
The cotton crop Will be harvested on
fewer acres than last year. As large or
larger breadth was planted to this
staple. but the inability of many
planters TO borrow money enough to
work the crop, together with drouth.
floods and worms, and the still greater
difflcuity OF getting money for picking,
combine TO seriously curtail production.
August indications point to crop not
exceeding 7,501, GOO bales, with favorable
weather, and very much less than that
IT insects and climate continue unfavor-
able. This means crop about the
same as last year, and nearly 2,000.000
bales less than the great 9,Ue0, 900 bale
crop of 1901.
The American Agriculturist believes
present dutmeSS in American cotton
manufacturing In lIEa nafu
for there is a scarcity rather than a sur
plus of staple and desirable goods, and
mills are already starting up to fiji Or
ders, with every prospect of being
crowded to supply the domestic demand
Tor the ensuing six months. English
mills cleaned up their surplus during
the great strike last year, and are now
enjoying remarkable prosperity and are
unable to meet the export demand.
This explains why cotton commands the
prices current two years ago at this
date, though the worlds visible supply
is some 800, 900 bales more now than
then. With short crop consumption
Will require more than this excess, with
consequent advance in values.
Product of Corn
Present indications point to a crop of
1,750, 000. 00D bushels of corn. eoatrasteC
with 1850, 900. 600 bushels last year, and
over 2,000. COS, 900 bushels in the i'm
menSe yield of two seasons previous.
But unless abundant rains prevail
throughout the corn belt in August. fol-
lowed by mild weather, production may
shrink to 1.6O0, GJ0.00G bushels, and may
even drop TO the size of the 1880 crop,
when we harvested less than
in any year for decade.
with single exception. The review
points out that While the breadth of
corn is some 2,0O0.000 of acres greater
than last year. IN the seven corn surplus
states over million less acres are de-
voted to maize than was the case two
years ago.
The corn crop has been greatly in
Iured so far during August. the first
two weeks of the month having wrought
ten times as much damage as the whole
month of July. Kansas will not raise
more than half crop. having but very
little except the eastern quarter, and
NebraSka'S crop has been seriously cur
tailed. Early planted corn in Sedg-
wick county, KAN, has been destroyed
by icing Superheated, and late planted
Will require one good rain before A ug.
. TO make fair crop. The reports Of
good rains all over Kansas between
Aug. 9 and Is are erroneous, as in four
Oh the ldFgeSl corn growing counties not
a drop fell III that time, and only little
patches have had enough to lay the dust
III four weeks.
Wheat.
The Outturn will not exceed 443, 000,-
600 bushels, according to the American
AgrieHlturist's own reports and its in
terpretatienS of government returns,
compared to 6l4.001,050 us the average
for the two past seasons and 100000. 900
bushels in 1880. Nearly 2.500. 900 less
acres were devoted to wheat than last
year, and the bulk of this decrease was
in the surplus states, which bid fair to
have rs, 100000 fewer bushels than last
year ana lis, G00.0e0 bushels under sur
plus states product of 1891.
Available supplies of old wheat are
40,000,000 bushels greater than twelve
month since, but even allowing that
farmers also hold 17.000,00o bushels
more old wheat now than then, the total
supplies for the ensuing year are $780,
900, 900 bushels, or III zoo, 600 less than
average of the two previous crops. Our
home consumption has averaged $780,
100000 bushels annually, leaving an
apparent export surplus OF 135, 900, 900
bushels. against exports last year of
1872. Uu0, eco, and the season before. 225,-
UU0,OD9-
Oats, mail Grains, Hay.
This years acreage of oats was never
exceeded except in 1898. when over