The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-04


ing INTO this state an tha rex,,a, - -
industry. foresight ana eond ss,a~.-e
OF our agr5custurists.
AAoAsslS1 WHEAT PRODuurrn~
sesii Increasing Her Aor>
.ss' snd 6ie Crops kveryvhere-
nc" York journal OF ConsmercA
<a o'hesai report ca the French whea,
sl"p puts the total yield al "a SO 81
Tfhs Is about s0DDgo9 l,.ssbs,s.
endh the crop Of last year. Tna
sa1siorlAtion OF wheat during the xsar
siiae7i 1uiy u last was $500. 600 b,sxheaa
- .s.as the wheat crop this year wiz
'''s'sl sae local denIEsi ard perhaps afYnx,i
sohnc surplus The home er,ssz,.r,,,.s.,. 8.
estimated at from sss55. 200 600 h, AZ e.,o roo
peasneis In the eleven years fror, ,aso
10 iosb, both included. there was $, s,n-
lof aafion every year ranging from q sse
We to 5s.ooooc bushels. but in ~, s.,,e -
THESE years WAS the crop s, iargs .s :
~ thss year. and in four CT the yeara II
Was considerably under 300 aao IN. h,,.,,s,.
1nese figures do not include -four. az
"0n ~ eacn OF the eleven years there
~, msAs al import varying from 42.ooo.s9 TO
.AA''Dsvuu POUNDS, and an export OF per-
maps tnird OF that. For the past five
years the crops have averaged less than
Sp,ovovo bushels France need not be :
wheat buyer this year.
IN the first three-cuarters of eas,h ~
the past four years Germany f,nrx.r.as
approximately the following Quantities of
wheat: 1850. 2o.0oo.0Da bushels: 1sst %
ou.coo bushels; 1859, 43.ooo.eoo bushels: 1sss
zomV.eW bushels. The result OF the tarsa
war With RUSSIA was TO increase the Ger
nssn imports from this country. hui shat
war ended IL. tariff treaty. and the fser-
man import statistics for the t,rst ssv
months Of this year show the effect Tn
1851 more than half the German Imr,arta-
tion was from Russia, and we furnished
not much more than one-sixth as much
as did Russia In 1882 and 1888 about half
the German Importation was from this
country. and the Imports from Russia
Iea 10 insignificant proportions last year.
IN the first seven months OF the current
calendar year Germany imported from
RUSSIA so,2sS tons OF wheat, 100. 745 tons
OF rye and 15S.90s tons of oats. comnanea
with Il.U1o toms OF wheat, 29lSe tons of
rye and 1854 tons of oats In the sorre-
spending seven months OF last year. In
July alone the imports increased from
2,28l tons OF wheat to 1916 tons. 70m
tons OF rye 10 1860 tons. and 1.6as tons
OF OATS TO 5i.sfi tons. The supplying Of
the German wants from Russia would
ieshse Tor US some market that last year
RUSSIA supplied while shut out from Ger
many. But wherever one looks the sup
ply OF wheat Is much more evident than
the demand for II. The Prnssian wheat
crop was materially larger In 1898 than
IN 1892, 90 per cent larger than the crop
CT 1881, and about a third larger than
that of 1889. Winter rye showed a much
larger increase In 1893 over 1892 The
French official estimates for the world
put the crop this year at Sc per cent.
above requirements for food and seed.
Independently OF a larger surplus than
usual left over from the previous year.
As Germany will draw on Russia for
wheat. so win Brazil draw on the arcen-
tine Republic. which is able to supply tts
neighboring state and ship an immense
surplus to Europe. 1t Is difficult to see
any limit TO the wheat-growing POSSIBLE
ties of Argentina. There are no statistics
or production. but the exports were In
round figures as follows for the last four
and half years: 1880. 1000, 0oo bushels:
1881, 1900. 600 bushels: 1852, 10000 900 bush
els; 1888. 37,0oo.ooo bushels; first half of
1921. sS.ooo. 900 bushels. II will be observed
that this IS more than was exported in the
whole OF 1895. Under date of June Mr..
Buchanan. our minister IN that country.
estimated that the export Of the first
quarter OF the year was ST, oe0s0 bushels.
and that in the remainder OF the year &c.
Gees bushels eouId be exported. His es-
innate was probably little high, as II
was within two millions Of the actual ex-
ports for the half year; bat his estimate
of &C. 900 10 he exported or carried over
for the whole year seems reasonable. Mr.
Buchanan believes that fhe producers
have been getting FOR their wheat about
81 cents In gold per bushei. For the next
year Mr.. Buchanan estimates an increase
OF some 20 per cent in acreage. but very
little increase In quantity over this year,
for this years yield was phenomenal.
The wheat crop OF india in 1888 was
nearly she same as IN 1891, when there
was an expor, OF 56.nea coo bushels TIE
expectation In 1895 was less than half that
OF 1891. which Is partly accounted for by
the fact that the crop OF lSse was a light
oae and IL not entirely explained by that
fact would indicate large surplus car
ricd over TO this year. The crop OF 1894
was only about 10. 900 bushels short Of
that OF 1919 and 1s.eoaooe or iaooo 90 short
Of the crop Of 1891. the largest crop be-
tween iSss and 1884, ana the one thai
yielded for export about as uuca as any
two years In that period. when the aver
age production was 2io co. 90 and the ay-
erage export se.aeHeoa. The crop this year
was ie,ooaoae bushels above that septen-
NAL average.