Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-10-21

quantities exported and the Govern
mept report Of quantities remaining In
farmers hands March LIST, with the
conclusion that about 1000 900 bushels
are required for domestic consumption
before March LIST and about zoe. 900 900
bushels after that date prior to the
maturity of another crop. The guam
tity remaining after exports for the
entire year are deducted and the stock
In farmers hands and visible supply
March LIST has varied for five years re-
markedly little-between 100000. 900
and $50. 100000 bushels from the crops
of 1902 and 1893, and between &c.,
100000 and 1000. OOO, 900 bushels from
the crops of 1895 and 1896, and about
200, 900. 900 bushels smaller In the year
1S04-'05 only because the Government
report of yield In 1894 Is supposed to
be as much too small. II this reason
ing be correct the consumption re-
CURED from about September list to
March list for winter feeding, grinding
into me-, and other manufacturing
would be- about 300. 100000 bushels
more than the quantity required dur
ing the remaining half-year.
Agricultural statistics, according to
the New York Tribune, show some in
teresting industrial movements in the
United Kingdom, which are mostly
uniform in Great Britain and Ireland.
III both the present year shows an in
crease over last year in wheat acreage
and decrease in barley, oats and po-
tatoes. The increase in wheat is more
than 100000 acres. That still leaves
the total far less, however, than it was
a few years ago. The total in the
whole United Kingdom is now 1885,
041 acres, while in 1892 in England
alone 1t was 2,1O2,9 60 acres. The in
crease at present recorded is promis-
ing. 1t Is greater than the decrease
in all other grains put together, indi-
eating that some potato-land, grass
land or other Is being devoted to
wheat. There is reported a consider
able decrease, in both parts of the
Kingdom, in permanent grassland,
while the acreage of clover and rota-
tion-grass has increased in Great Brit
ain and diminished in Ireland. Turn
ing to live stock, an increase in the
number Of cattle Ia seen, but it is
vastly greater In Ireland than in
Great Britain. In fact, Ireland is
getting ahead of Great Britain as a
cattle country; is far ahead now, pro-
portionately. She has fully 40 per
cent. Of all the cattle in the United
Kingdom. In sheep decrease Is
noted in Great Britain and an increase
in Ireland; which is strange, for the
former is certainly better adapted to
sheep culture than the latter. The re-
vival of Irish wooden manufactures
has, no doubt, much to do with 1t. In
swine a considerable decrease is re-
ported all around, and it is to be OBJ
served that Great Britain is more
given to hog-raising than Ireland, she
having GA per cent. of the whole num-
Der to Irelands 80 per cent. The
general showing seems to indicate that
Ireland Is making better agricultural
progress than Great Britain. She Is
making her products more varied than
they used to be, and of more profita-
BILE and trustworthy character. The
shortage of crops from which the ISL
and is said to be suffering this year
is probably not serious, and at worst
will prove only temporary. The clear
est indications are that good meas
ure of permanent prosperity is return.
ing to the Emerald Isle.