Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-06-27
Wheat Crop of the World.
By Our Agricultural Editor.


The data furnished by the regular
monthly report of the statistician of
the United States department of agri
culture for March, closes with an esti-
mate of the wheat crop of the world
for the past three years.
Asia's crop last year was 316 million
bushels, against 200 million in 1892. OF
this amount, India produced 267 mil
lion bushels.
The crop of Africa was 30 million, OF
which Algeria produced 10 million
bushels and Egypt 10 million.
Australia turned out Al million bush
els, the state of Victoria producing Is
million, or more than one third.
Europe produced 1 ,408 millions of
bushels, of which 321 million are credit
ed to Russia. 277 million to France, 1872
million to Hungary, and Germany and
Italy each-119 million bushels, besides
large yields in Austria, Great Britain,
Spain, the Caucasus, and Turkey.
The South American crop was 81
million bushels, Argentina yielding
two-thirds the amount.
North America gave AT million bush
els, of which 396 million were in the
United States.
The grand total of all countries was
1850 million bushels, or about 1! bush
ell per capita to the total population of
the world
The seven largest wheat growing
countries in the world, taken in num-
erical order. are: United States, Russia,
France, India, Hungary, Germany and
Italy, all producing more than 100 mil
lion bushels each. Other more promi-
nent wheat States are: Argentina,
Austria, Roumania, Spain, Turkey and
Great Britain.
The total crop of the world is about
so million bushels short of the crop of
1S92.-IndeG-Appeal.
Three-fourths of your ailments arise
from liver troubles which Simmons
Liver Regulator cures.
CONVERTED NO DOUBT. - Nearly
every time some ferocious murderer is
to be hung we hear stories of his con
version, accompanied by expressions
of joy in the immediate prospect of
paradise; all of which reminds us of
that problem in theological equity
which deals with the relative positions
of the murderer and his Wet IN in
eternity, the former converted and in
Heaven. looking down upon the latter
in hell, hurried to his doom because
his violent and unexpected death left
him no time for repentance. We do
not hesitate to cut the gordian knot of
this difficulty by total and summary
reputation of this Jail persuaded, rope
hurried, death frightened conversion,
and to say that as between the fu ture
chances of the SO called converted muir
derer and his unconverted victim, we
would in most cases choose the latter.
Good meaning people gather around
these condemned criminals, and bv a
kind of earnest and persistent import
unity work upon an already overstrain.
ed and Superseded emotional ma ture
until these fellows, who if turned out
of jail would be the same devils they
were before, imagine sort of CONVEX.
sion which in most cases is nothing
more than species of hypnotic haIlu-
cinat ion. 1t is vivid illustration of
that mis- chievous but very prevalent
notion that man may thus, in the
last moment almost, escape all the
of a bad lite no matter
how much suffering. inius tice, and
loss, for time and for eternity, his
has inflicted upon others.
--Buend Vista Advocate.