The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-11-20
FOREIGN GRAIN CROP NEWS
midas PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT.
Russia Has = Peer Year, bat Has
Exported HeavilS-shortage In
Austria, Turkey. Germany and the
Unitea Kin9dona.

Washington, Nov. ls,-The agricultural
department has issued its monthly review
of the foreign crop situation Much at.
tention is devoted to the grain crop Of
Russia, especially wheat, ON account of
| its magnitude as factor in the European
supply. The review says that ali ac-
counts agree in representing the wheat
crop as deficient, but as to what extent
| crop as deficient, but as to the extent of
TAG deficiency, much difference of opinion
exists. After quoting many dispatches
painting the crop situation in various
provinces in black eOlors, and the state
ment of our consul at Odessa that this
years crop has proved failure, the re-
view calls attention to the fact that since
harvest Russia has exported grain Stree
ly."
The exports of wheat from August
/ to October %, says the review, amount
ed to 4,l52, $40 quarters, against 2,SSS, O4O
quarters, and 3,3S3, $50 quarters during
the corresponding period in 1890 and 1895
respectively. These large exports have led
commercial papers TO withhold their ere
/ denee from the more pessimistic of the
reports which have been published. That
the crop was deficient has been admitted,
but that the failure has been so serious
as implied, some dealers of western Eu.
| rope do not believe. Stocks in the ports
are not increasing in the manner usual
for this time OF year, and the opinion is
freely expressed that after this month
Russia can be relied on for only moderate
/ shipments.
1T is generally understood that Russia
had large stocks of wheat left over from
the crops Of the preceding year, and this
fact, coupled with the good prices which
have prevailed, may account for the large
exports which have taken place, even
though the crop failure in large parts
Of Russia has been extremely serious"
The review says the estimates of the
Russian crop are so uncertain that their
reproduction would be of doubtful utility.
In France.
The preliminary official figures for
France show a reduction of 26 per cent
below 1896 and IL per cent below the
average for 10 years. As for five years
France and Russia produced 20 per cent
OF the worlds crop, the review says u
heavy shortage in both countries would
therefore be sufficient in itself to produce
a sensible effect on the worlds supply, in
dependent of the short crops in Austria.
Hungary, the Danubian and Balkan
countries and elsewhere, and the shOrtness
Of the last crop in India, Australia and
Argentina In Germany, rye, which is
the principal bread grain in that country
has been officially estimated at per cent
less than last years crop The various
estimates for Austria Hungary are more
or less conflicting, but there is no doubt
as to there being a heavy deficit in the
wheat crop.
England and the Continent.
The crop of wheat of the United King
dom is estimated at fifty and two-third.
millions bushels.
|. The preliminary estimate OF the Italian
; wheat crop makes it S5,l3l 900 bushels
against 44,722,7OO bushels last year. The
Roumanian wheat crop is estimated al
81, l34.72O bushels.
The Bulgarian wheat crop is estimated
at 40 per cent; rye at s. to 20 per cent
and barley at 25 per cent less than last
year.
The wheat crop of Turkey has been es-
timated at 5O,sOOOOO imperial bushels.
As regards crops now growing in the
southern hemisphere, the news continues
to be favorable on the whole. In Argen
tina drought, which for a time in some
provinces threatened serious injury
seems to have been generally broken and
danger Of any serious loss from such a
source seems now in the advanced state
Of the crop to have passed.
The Indian wheat crop has been sowr
under favorable conditions, and the same
is in general true Of the winter grain
crops Of Europe, and both in India and
in Europe the weather in the main seem,
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