The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-16
FOREIGN GRAIN CROPS
India 100000 Above the
Ten Years Average.
RUSSIAN REPORTS MIXED
Austria's Prospect Excellent
Argentine in Doubt.

Washington, D. c., Oct 1.-THE follow
! ing is a summary Of the agricultural de-
partment's report Of agricultural condit-
ions in foreign countries for October:
! The Hungarian minister Of agriculture
and the several commercial authorities
have Issued their estimates CT the world 5
/ wheat crops OF 1898 The Beerbohm est
mate Is equivalent to 2 90. 0eo. ~ bushels OF
sixty pounds in the grand EotaI, varying
/ but Little from the hungarian Official estl-
/ mate.
| Tae wheat crop OF India for 1855. as Of
| hcialiy reported, amounted TO 242 So. go
| bushels; that OF 1881 20 Isl .s57.4S3 bushels.
/ while the annual average for the previous
! 1--WE years was 20, az, JsV. Official figures
on area show an increase OF 6ss.ll2 acres
in France, of 2ls6s acres in the United
Kingdom, 153, 500 in Ontario. Canada, and
al, 80 in Manitoba under wheat. The esti-
mates OF production given in tables pub
ushed with the report make the crop Of
1895 the largest on record, but the WORD S
reserve stock had run extremely low be-
fore harvest.
The French area under wheat was about
Al per cent greater in 1888. and taking
wheat, rye and maslin together. the area
increase amounted TO 1893, l7s acres. The
average yield of wheat this year was near
~ twenty-five bushels per acre, against
less than 15.2 in 1887.
An official estimate for Hungary puts
the wheat crop al 11e SIS. 900 bushels. gatnst
50, 92i, 600 last year; rye. s. l5i 900 bushels.
against 81, l51. 600 bushels last year; barley.
81, ,G0J bushels against 4L4750O0 bushels
last year: oats. s4.041. 900 bushels, against
IS. sS1 90 bushels last year.
The wheat crop OF Roumsnla has been
stated in English papers. on the authority
OF an official estimate. as 6.Se0,Oo0 bushels.
but some reports from that country rep
resent that his estimate is too large by sew
eral million bushels. The offers of wheat
from Roumania and Bulgaria are descr b.
ed as rather extraordinarily restricted"
The preliminary official estimate as 70 the
Prussian rye crop is said to state it at
24G 10000 bushels, against 223. 200 900 bush
els last year.
The German potato crop was reported IN
the middle Of September as a full average.
In Austria-Hungary the crops OF wheat,
rye and oats are reported as very salts
factory. Barley is merely average in
quantity and deficient in quality. while
maize. on the whole. is not a good crop.
Reports from Russia are quite conflict
ing Supplies Of new wheat for export
come forward very sparingly. and consid-
cradle quantities OF grain are said TO be
moving toward the provinces which suf-
fered so severely through the failure OF the
crops last year.
At the beginning OF September the crops
in Argentina were reported to be In fine
condition. but about three weeks later they
were represented as suffering for want
Of rain and threatened by locusts. Ac-
counts from Australia represent the crop
outlook there as excellent.
The sowing OF the fall grain crops IN
Europe has been delayed by drought in a
number Of countries Complaint on this
score has been quite serious and wiS~-
spread