The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
THE FOREIGN wheat CROP
Reports Generally Favorable Ex-
cept in India and Russia.
The Record in Argentina Equal to
1o9S-'99, While Exports HIVE
Largely Increased Conditions
About Normal in Australia.

Reports of the foreign wheat crops are
generally favorable from all over the
world. India and Russia report short
crops in certain districts, but elsewhere
excess OF average crops have been har-
vested. The reports follow:
Southern Hemisphere-The crop OF this
cereal harvested last winter in Argentina
is thought to have been at least equal to
the large one Of 1S9S-'99- The exports for
the current year up to August amounted
to sc, 33S, coo bushels against 43, Z56, 900
bushels for the corresponding portion of
1893; and however much they fall off DIR
ing the remainder of the year. the t9:aI
expectation for 1900 can scarcely fail con-
siderably TO exceed that of 1899. since the
amount exported within its first seven
months was within less than 5000. 600
bushels of equaling the entire export of
1899. Considered ~ itself, this circum-
stance would seem TO indicate that the
crop of 1S99-1900 was much larger than
that Of the preceding year. but the large
crop Of 1889 followed three bad wheat
years, and stocks at the beginning of 1899
were about exhausted, whereas at the be-
ginning Of 1909 they are officially estimat-
ed TO have comprised between six and sew
en- million bushels Yet after making due
allowance for this circumstance. the opin-
ion that the crop of 1S99-I900 was at least
equal 10 that of the previous year seems
fairly well warranted According to an
official estimate, which made the crop of
lS9S-9S 2,S5j ,l3S metric tons, or 104 9S2 600
bushels, this means that in round numbers
crop OF los, CU0. 600 bushels was harvested
in Argentina last winter
In 1883 Uruguay, according to the off,
cfal figures. had crop somewhat exceed
ing 100000 bushels. The only department
for which official figures have yet been re-
ceived for 1899-1900 has crop over S per
cent smaller than the previous years, bat
IN view of the large crop reaped in the
neighbOring republic, it seems unlikely
that such reduction was general through
out Uruguay.
Such information as is at hand regard
ing the Gillian crop of 1S99-1900 indicates
that il was so small as to be insufficient
for home requirements .during the current
year Indeed, Chilli was said to be import
ing wheat as early as May last. or within
few months after the completion of her
harvest.
The figures at hand for Australasia in
dictate a deficiency of several million bush
els as compared with 1889. In Australia
the crop of 1900-1900 was probably but 1T
tie smaller than that of the previous year
The crop of Victoria was about 1900 900
bushels less. but that of New South Wales
was nearly that much greater than in
1889; and in like manner a deficiency of
few hundred thousand bushels in South
Australia seems to have been compen-
stated by nearly corresponding increase in
West Australia. The only figures at hand
for the small wheat crop of Queensland
make it but $4,000 bushels less than that
OF lS9S-99- Figures are wanting for Tas-
mania, cut the crop of that colony can
hardly have exceeded that of the preceding
year, which was 655 900 bushels in excess
OF the largest previous crop harvested
since 1S94-95. There remains only New
Zealand; but the crop OF that colony was
over 100000 bushels smaller than that
OF lS9S-99, and as the colonies of the Aus
tral1an mainland seem, on the whole, to
have fallen somewhat short OF their pro-
ductIon in that year, with the chances in
favor Of some reduction in the crop of
Tasmania, the deficiency for Australasia
as a whole, in comparison with the previ-
Gus years crop, can hardly be much less,
and may be somewhat more, than 6,000, 0G0
bushels.
Adding the Cape of Good Hope to the
countries already named. We have all the
countries of the southern hemisphere |
whose wheat crop have commonly been
included in statements of the wheat crop |
Of the world. In the table on the world S
wheat crop, published last spring by the
Department Of Agriculture. these were |
credited with an aggregate production of
10. 900 bushels in 1S9899: and it |
hardly seems likely that their production |
In 1S99-1e00 can have fallen more than |
1000. 900 bushels short OF this figure, If so |
much, since Australasia and Chilli are the |
only countries included for which any /
material reductions are indicated by the |
at hand
India-After the crops of the southern |
hemisphere, harvested during our northern !
winter, the next important wheat crop, in