Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-12-08
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
, Grain Crops Of the World.
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A report from Washington under
date of Nov. 10 says: Az
stAtisticlan Hyde OF the agricultural
department has completed the official
report Of the crops of the world for this
month, and a revised review Of the
worlds wheat Ia an important feature.
The Russian wheat crop Is now put
by the ministry Of agriculture at 4l7,-
100000 Winchester bushels, an Increase
Of 5000 1000 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 prellmln-
airy Official one puts the German wheat
crop at 100000 bushels more than the
1897 crop, making 1t, in round numbers,
l15,OOO,OOO bushels OF sixty pounds.
Tho official estimate OF the italian
wheat crop puts II at 1881, 900 Win
chester bushels.
The latest estimate Of tho Spanish
wheat crop are little less than 95,0OO,-
600 Winchester bushels.
The London Times estimates the
wheat crop of the United Kingdom at
77,9OO,OOO Winchester bushels, consid-
erably In excess OF the estimate a
month ago.
The official estimate for Roumanla
makes It's wheat crop 5S,450,9O4 Win
chester bushels. Official figures for
Manitoba gives It's wheat crop as TO-
729SOS Winchester bushels. Prelim-
mary official figures make the crop
OF Ontario 33,02S,O79 Winchester BUSH
els, the total for the two provinces be-
ing 59,757,S Winchester bushels. AS
the wheat area OF the more eastern
provinces was much larger than In re-
cent years 1t seems likely that the
total for Canada will reach the highest
of last months estimates-G3, 900, 900
imperial bushels.
On the whole, the changes from O
month ago increase the total estimate
of the worlds wheat crop, but the con-
ditlons 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 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. II the Australian wheat crop
should fall short Of the Broomhall es.
Inmates, the largest, 1t 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 54,000,000 and
the Hungarian estimate only 37,000,0O
bushels Of sixty pounds, while the es-
innate of the Bulletin des Halles was
100000 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.
q As to other crops, the estimates for
France for barley is 81, 167,776 bushels
and for oats 299,O59,O74 bushels, The
provisional estimate Of the Russian
agricultural ministry give in Winches-
ter bushels: Winter wheat, IA, 6S9, 900;
spring wheat, 275,Sl1,O 900; total wheat,
All, 45O 900; rye, 717,7S6,OOO; barley,
1920, 141. 900; oats, 6O6,SGl,O 900; maize, A.
779,OOO.
The official crop report Of Austria
for the middle Of October represents
the oat crop as generally satisfactory
in quantity and still more 80 in quality.
Except in the mountain districts maize
is mostly harvested and hardly me-
dium 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 a 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
licia, though in the last named prov
lnce the latter part Of the crop suffered
somewhat from frost.