The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-11
CROPS ARE BAD
RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF AGRIcJL-
TuRE ISSUES GLOOMY
REPORT
ALL GRAINS BELOW AVERAGE
Red Cross Will open Free Eating
Houses and Direct Medical
Relief in Province of
sarnoff
ALL GRAINS BELOW AVERAGE
WATCHING THE UNITED STATES
speciat Correspondence of the Associated

Speciaf Correspondence of the Associated
Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 27.-The min
istry of agriculture today published its
annual autumnal crop report for Euro
pean Russia. The ministry has $500 cor
respondents west of the Urals. All crops
were below average, it is stated, and
in some parts of the East and South
they were "bad-in places very bad. =
The staple grain, rye, was particularly
deficient.
Winter wheat was bad in the Don
province, Yekaterinoslaff, Poland and the
Baltic provinces, and good only in the
Southwest. All summer grains were be-
low average, and ranged from bad
to very bad' in the East and Southeast,
summer wheat and oats being notably
deficient. Barley and millet turned out
somewhat better, peas and buckWheat,
fax and hemp, bad" Potatoes We're the
average, but suffered with other bread
stuffs.
The unfavorable season was aided by
field mice, which swarmed in Perm, and
bv other pests. The total estimated yield
of various grains in European Russia,
including Cis-Caucasia and Poland, was
as follows: Rye, 1,100,S 900 pools Ca
pood equals SO pounds averageJ.
Wheat ISL, ,747 900 Barley .... .304 2S9, 900
Oats $50, ,674, 600 Millet ..... 81. $4,000
The deficient harvests of 1900 caused
shrinkage of 100000 roubles in the IN
come from the payment of peasants for
their land and the minister of finance is
resolved to materially diminish the esti-
mated receipts from this source in the
next budget. The government appears
fully aware of the responsibility which
it has assumed by virtually excluding
private persons and associations from
participation in relief measures. Judg-
ing from the publication and such scat
tered notice as individual papers have
made from time to time, every endeayor
has been made to mitigate suffering.
Will Open Eating Houses.
In Sarnoff district of Khaliski spe-
cial relief commission has been formed
to cooperate with the Semstov, or local
government board, in dealing with the
sufferings.
The Red Cross will open free eating
houses and direct the medical relief. The
greatest difficulty is anticipated from
the Tartars and Finnish tribe, known as
Nordva The cases of scurvy and ty-
phoid are increasing Relief is being dis
tributed at the rate of two poods Of rye
per month per adult. A thousand free
meal tickets are issued daily. The dis
tress has been increased by a fire, which
destroyed 1900 huts.
From the Tauride it is announced that
417,0G0 roubles are to be expended on
highways, of which the government will
loan 900. The semstrov of the govern
ment of Khazan asks for 10000 roubles
in order to organize the sale of grain OF
those able to buy. The money has been
promised in case the semstrov will allow
the finance minister to dictate the prices
and arrange to refund the money.
The public has not responded heartily
to the appeals of the Red Cross for sub
scriptions. In this city only 1855 rou-
bles have been obtained up to within a
few days ago. The Red Cross, however,
enjoys the benefit of certain taxes and
privileges.
The Russian leader writer's have put
President Roosevelt and the United
States on the list of their regular top
les. Scarcely a day passes but what
reference is made to him and the finan-
cial policy of the United States. The
following appeared a few days ago:
1.-The statesman who was summoned
to power a short time ago is type of
God, and greater opportunities lie with
him than many of his predecessors en-
joyed. Between Russia and the United
States the history of the past century
has told us there was nothing in COM
mon. The classic land of freedom, the
country which devoted its prosperity to
wonderful dimensions and which has re-
allied the boldest Utopias and the most
daring theories of political and social
liberty, the great transatlantic republic,
terrifies the imagination of Europeans
1t is a giant, a state which recent events
has made world power, state which
transferred itself into a power almost
unreeognizable and is a power claiming
through its new chief magistrate that
the word of the United States shall have
due weight everywhere where economy
and political questions are decided"