Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-09
EUROPE Is SHORT
TREMENDOUS DEMAND MADE FOR
AMERICAN WHEAT.
RUSSIA HAS BEEN WET
Estimated From 10000 900 to 1S0, 00O,-
600 More Bushels Than Usual will
Be Nesded--Wilson Says Wheat
Would Have Risen Anyway
Weather Too Hot fer Corn.

Washington, Sept. S,--AtweIl, the
commercial agent OF the United States
al RobaiX. France, sends the state de-
dartment d report on the short wheat
crop in France. He says that the
crop in France and in fact in all Eu-
lope has fallen mucn below the aver
age, and it is estimated that the United
States and Canada Will be called upon
to eXpClt from 1000. 600 to 1870, 900 900
bushels more than they exported to
Europe last year. Consul keenan, at
Odessa has made quite an extensive
report to the state department con-
corning the failure of crops in Russia.
In many districts it has been the wet
test season ever known and grain has
been destroyed by both rain and hail.
much grain is not worth the expense
of binding. The report predicts that
little wheat will be exported from
Russia during 1878 as there is little
aNai,@Dle for that purpose, the old
stocks being practically exhausted. and
tie new crop but little more than suf-
ticiCnt for the home demand. The
failure of the wheat crop in Aus
tria, Hungary, Roumania and Bull
garia, Consul Keenan, continues, has
brought buyers from those countries
into Russia and wheat which would
ldinarily leave Odessa by steamers, is
destined to go by rail from the interior
into the countries named
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson who
hnC y,,-+ ~.
Mississippi states. says: Il
found the farmers in practically good
spirits wherever | went. There is no
doubt that confidence is restored and
the country justified in its anticipa-
lions of better times. People are all
busy in the west" Wilson predicted
still farther advance in the price of
wheat, due to the fact that there is
not only short crop abroad, but also
because of the fact that, according to
his observation, the crop will not be
as extensive in this country us has
generally been anticipated
With an Improvement in the
times, he said, the average Amer
lean is going to have all the flour his
family can consume, even though he
may have to pay little more for it,
LelieVe that even without a shortage
in foreign crops. conditions in this
country would have forced wheat to a
dollar a bushel. But" he added, 1.-The
improved condition of the farmer is
due not alone to the enhanced price
in wheat but there has been d cores
ronding improvement in all farm pro-
Ducts"
The weather bureau, in its weekly
report of the crop conditions says:
Corn has been very unfavorably af
fected by the weather conditions dur
ing the past week in the principal
corn producing states. The high tenn
perature and the absence of much
needed rain has checked the growth
of the late crop and caused a prema-
ture ripening, while the prevalence Of
hot winds has caused injury, particu
larly in the states of the lower Mis-
souri, valley. In Iowa and Missouri
much corn is past help and will be cut
for fodder. Conditions, however, are
more favorable in the lake region,
upper Ohio valley and in New England
and middle Atlantic states the crop
generally is doing well.