The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-23
EUROPE WILL TAKE IT.

grain crop arises, Minnesota and the Da-
kotas are about to harvest the greatest
crop III their history Reports from all
the grain carrying roads and from the
various elevator companies agree that
the Northwest has never seen more prom
Using conditions for the grain fields at
this time of the year than now. Drought
end blight have been the twin evils most
to be feared for the spring wheat of the
Northwest; but the soil Of the three sta es
is now thoroughly saturated for long
siege of dry weather, and the fields are
luxuriant in strong and rank growth of
dark green foliage that seems able to
withstand all the evils that hot sun
and it's kindred ills may inflict. The con-
ditions all point, therefore, to record
breaking crop.
The vital question which interests the
producer, therefore. is this-how about
crop conditions in the East and abroad,
and viii there be a foreign demand to
take care of the vast production Of the
Northwest now in sight? In other words.
will the market be able to rise to the
emergency and take care of the product at
living figures? Upon the answer to this
question hangs the prosperity of the farm
er. as fhuche as upon the question of
moisture and prcdr ction. Not on the III
-terest Of the farm, but that of the store,
the mill, the village and city, the entire
commercial and industrial fabric resting
upon the farm, is involved in this proble m
of a market adequate to the enormous
production that is promised.
Most gratifying, therefore, are the mar
ket reports from London and Paris of the
past forty-eight hours, that Europe's de-
mands upon American wheat this season
will be the heaviest ever known. We are
not so inhumane as to rejoice in the ca
lamity which has visited foreign produc-
ers, but we rejoice that our abundance
may go-to meet their shortage. and there
by save foreign peoples from suffering
while giving prosperous production to the
Woodworking toilers on our Western prai-
ries. sst-
The London cable reads that recent
phenomenally cold weather has had the
worst effect on crops everywhere in
Europe, especially in France, where the
wheat crop has been ruined. Hence the
imported on Of the American commodity
probably win break all records" We
are further informed that two firms alone
have "aIre adyl ordered more than the en-
tire Importation from the United States
in 1900 August-lil1c heat and unbroken
drought carly in the season has been
followed by abnormal cold, even to
frosts. The thermometer at Greenwich
last Tuesday registered down to IS de-
grees. Similar temperatures were re-
corded in France and Italy, while in
Austria and Hungary there was actually
snow Proper "heauing' of the grain Is
rendered impossible
Paris cables similar intelligence, and
adds that Frances importations of
American wheat this year will be
enormously beyond precedent" One of
the greatest French importing firms.
which has distributing agencies all over
the cent 'nent, announces that it has al
ready placed orders for double it's i'm
portatons of 1900 and quadrupIe those of
1S99 As the importatfons of France in
normal GRIP years reach 100000 bushels
and these of the United Kingdom. adding
-four to wheat, reach 17G eco. co., or a total
of 2-O.COAO0O per annum, the meaning of
any large percentage of increase may be
appreciated. European importing states
in the aggregate last year took some
thing Ike 200 600 bushels Of wheat; so
shat any large increase upon this would
easHy take care of the N0rthwest's
promised surplus.
The extra demand upon America will
rebound largely to the benefit O: the
spring wheat states of the Northwest.
for the reason that Kansas and the
other exporting winter wheat states are
scarcely up to last years yield Mime
sofa and the three Dakotaa will profit
most CT all from the extra European &c
nland prominent elevator company
which buys wheat at z25 stations in the
spring wheat belt predicts a crop of cO),-
10000 b-shols for the three states this
year, us compared WITH only S5,O9lOO)
bushels last year, 1,6,00OeCO in $50, and
17S0n,92o in 1855 Reports from every
station in the Wheat belt of the three
states unite in the common verdict of
the finest conditions known to the re-
srect.ve localities. Mnnesota's bumper
crop cf SIS reached IS, 100000. and South
Dako,;ts was AZ 100000; while North Da-
kotas big record of 1855 was 81, 100000. 1t
is therefore quite possible that the esti-
mate eff 2OO,OOOQ0O for this season may
not be cut eft the way. This would in
crease the prosperity Of the wheat pro-
duciag section of the three states 20 per
cent over 1879 and 1876 per cent over last
year
What viii this mean to the prosperity
of Minnesota and the Dakotas? Notwith-
Gtanding thee terrific crop shrinkage of last