The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-09
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
!, Grain Crops Of the World.
A renort from Washington under

A report from Washington under
date of Nov. IL says:
Statistician Hyde of the agricultural
department has completed the Official
report of the crops Of the world for this
month, and revised review OF the
worlds wheat is an important feature.
The Russian wheat crop is now put
by the ministry Of agriculture at 4l7,-
900, 900 Winchester bushels, an increase
of 80, 900 900 over the Hungarian official
estimate. An estimate, believed to be
below rather than above the actual
yield, Is credited to the Hungarian
agricultural ministry, estimating the
Hungarian wheat crop at 1927, 200
bushels of sixty pounds.
An estimate said to be the prelimin-
airy official one puts the German wheat
crop at 100000 bushels more than the
1897 crop, making it, in round numbers,
115,000,O0O bushels of sixty pounds.
The official estimate of the Italian
wheat crop puts it at 1873, 371, 800 Win
chester bushels.
The latest estimate Of the Spanish
wheat crop are little less than 95,OO0,-
600 Winchester bushels.
The London Times estimates the
wheat crop of the United Kingdom at
77,900,O00 Winchester bushels, consid-
erably in excess of the estimate a
month ago.
The official estimate for Roumania
makes it's wheat crop 58,456,904 Win
chester bushels. Official figures for
Manitoba gives it's wheat crop as U.s.
| 729,S08 Winchester bushels. Prelim-
mary official figures make the crop
of Ontario 33,02S,079 Winchester bush
els, the total for the two provinces be-
ing 59,757,SS7 Winchester bushels. AS
the wheat area of the more eastern
provinces was much larger than in re-
cent years it seems likely that the
total for Canada will reach the highest
of last months estimates-63,0 900, 900
imperial bushels.
On the whole, the changes from a
month ago increase the total estimate
of the worlds wheat crop, but the con-
ditions affecting the crops Of the
southern hemisphere are scarcely so
favorable as they were commonly sup
posed to be when the estimates used in
the table published a month ago were
made.
Australia has suffered severely from
drouth, but this is now broken, good
rains having fallen throughout Vic
toria, South Australia and New South
Wales If the Australian wheat crop
should fall short of the Broomhall es-
Inmates, the largest, it may in any case
equal or perhaps exceed the very mod
crate estimates of the other two au-
thorities announced last month. The
Broomhall estimate was 100000 and
the Hungarian estimate only 100000
bushels Of sixty pounds, while the es-
innate of the Bulletin des Halles was
$4,000, 900 Winchester bushels. Severe
frosts have been reported from Argen-
tine, but the latest accounts as to the
outlook for the wheat crop in that
country are not favorable.
AS to other crops, the estimates for
France for barley is 51,167,776 bushels
and for oats 299, 1884, 74 bushels. The
provisional estimate of the Russian
agricultural ministry give in Winches-
ter bushels Winter wheat, 141, $3.50
spring wheat, 275,Sl1, 900; total wheat,
ALI, 45O, 900; rye, 717,7S6,OO0; barley,
1920, 141, 600; oats, 6O6,S61, 900; maize, A.
$4,000.
The official crop report of Austria
for the middle of October represents
the oat crop as generally satisfactory
in quantity and still more so in quality.
Except in the mountain districts maize
is mostly harvested and hardly a me-
dunn crop. Buckwheat suffered partly
from drought and partly from frost in
the northern and eastern provinces,
but in the middle zone was more sat
isfactory. The barley crop was some
what deficient in quantity and quality.
In general, however, the cereal crops
were satisfactory, the kernels being
mostly full, heavy and of good color.
In the mountain districts and in the
south the yields Of potatoes were be-
low the average, but they were salts
factory, and especially so in upper Aus
tria and part Of Moravia and east Ga