The herald., 1897-09-08
Is Not Much Better Than
q Failure
THE HEAVY CROP IN AMERICA
WILL NOT SUFFICE TO SUPPLE
THE LACK
Irish Farmers Being Unable to Buy
Wheat Are in Deadly Fear
Of Famine
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Wv. P. At
well, commercial agent of the United
States at Robaix France. sends to the
state department a report on the short
wheat crop in France. He says the crop
in France, and in fact in all Europe,
has fallen much below the average, and
that it is estimated that the United States
port from 12O. .00O, 900 to 100, ,OOO 900 bushels
more than were exported to Europe last
year.
Consul Heenan at Odessa has made
quite an extensive report to the state
department concerning the failure Of the
crops in Russia. In many districts It
has been the wettest season ever known
and grain has been destroyed by hail.
Much of the grain was not worth the
expense of binding. The wheat received
at Odessa is of a very inferior quality.
The report predicts that little wheat will
be exported from Russia during the sea-
son of 1878, the old stocks being practi-
cally exhausted and the new crop little
more than sufficient for the home de-
mand. The failure of the wheat crop
in Austria Hungary, Roumania and Bull
garia, Consul Heenan says, has brought
buyers from those countries into Russia,
and wheat which would ordinarily leave
Odessa by steamers is destined to 60 by
rail from the interior into the countries
named.
IRISH CROPS
NEW YORK, Sept. IA dispatch to
the World from London says: The
Worlds special inquiries throughout Ire
land fully corroborate the alarming pre-
dictions cabled Saturday Of the failure
of the harvest and consequent i'm
pending famine. Cries Of warning to the
government are rising in a crescendo
scale from all parts of Ireland. They
are not confined, as in former years of
distress. to the congested districts on
the western seaboard.
From Mullinger. one of the most pros
porous parts of the Midlands, a CORES
pondent telegraphs: 1.-The crops are
now irretrievably destroyed. 1t will be
impossible for the farmers to make any,
thing of their cereals this year, as they
are quickly rotting. In the churches
prayer for fine weather was recited,
and if change does not come immedi-
olSly tAC VI W iiilSul dS well Ue l6IL 10
manure the ground"
From County Wexford, noted as one
of the richest in the country, the tid-
ings are: 1.-The grain crop may be de-
scribed as a gigantic failure in County
Wexford this year. The greater part
of the potato crop is fit only for cattle
feeding"
From Fermanagh a correspondent tel
pCrdnhd. "a a 01aefjpC ha1 IN
ask for reduction in rents, the parish
priest presiding declared that not since
black 1S47' has the prospect for farmers
in this district been SO bad. In several
places the potatoes have been failure.
Hundreds of tons of hay have been
ruined by the heavy rains and floods"
From Carlow, known as "the model
county" comes the following dispatch:
There is before our farmers an outlook
that is disastrous to conceive owing
to the frightful weather. A great deal
of corn cut early remains in the stacks,
injured beyond recovery. In many dis
tricts the farmers have been unable to
cut their crops, which present the sad
dening spectacle of being leveled to the
earth by the persistent rains, that have
brought forth a mass of second growth
and weeds. Apprehensions concerning
potatoes also have been dismally real
lied"
These evidences of the widespread
character of the ruin wrought by the
inclement season are merely samples
from numerous reports received. The
Irish government has adopted no meas
ure as yet to cope with the threatened
famine.
MISSOURI WEATHER
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. THE heat
has been intense throughout different
sections of the State during the past
week or more, and this, combined. with
the scarcity of moisture, is drying up the
corn and causing suffering among cat
tie Specials from the following places
have been received:
Centralia. Mo-: This section is nowun
dergoing one of the severest drouths
in its history. Late corn is greatly dam
aged. pastures are giving out, and stock
water is becoming very scarce
Macon, Mo-: The excessive heat and
dry weather for the past fifteen DAYS
will play havoc with the corn crop in this
section. The creeks are running low
and cattle will soon suffer for water il
relief does not come from the clouda