The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-12
|C. W. DAVIS ON
CROP OUTLOOK
Wheat Must Be Used TO Make
Worlds Pork.
STATISTICS OF THE WORLD
Prove That Bread Eaters Have
Not More Than Enough.
STATISTICS OF THE WORLD

c. Wood Davis, sedgwick county's
famous crop statistican has written a
strong article on the worlds supply OF
wheat and the demand for it by the
bread-eating human family. He says:
Official estimates of outurn or condi-
ton of the fields at harvest time Of the
more important wheat growing regions
and commercial estimates of the outturn
of the less important are now available
that permit satisfactory conclusions as
to the sufhciency of the "bread-eating
worlds" supply for the 1912 harvest
year.
Such authorities as the hungarian min
( lister of agriculture, Beerbohns and the
Bulletin des Halles have put forth esti-
mates, which, for the regions inhabited
/ by the "bread-eating'' populations of
European lineage, range from 2,356, 000,
/ 600 to 2,45S.O 600 bushels, the mean be-
/ ing 2,SS7 900. 000 Wine the highest esti-
mat I should feel warranted in making
would be $780, .00.OOo bushels. the difference
arising mostly from the fact the estina-
tors named, at least the two papers,
adopt estimates Of those engaged in sell
/ ing paper wheat upon the exchanges
rather than rely upon the indications of
condition appearing in the reports of our
department of agriculture respecting the
fields of the United States.
To the wheat grown in the regions in
habited by the "bread-eaters" proper-Eu-
rope, the United States, Canada, Argen-
tina, Chile, Uruguay. South Africa. and
Australasia-must be added such imports
as the "bread-eaters" are able 10 secure
from India, Algeria, Tunis, and Asiatic
Turkey, which have averaged 200o0.0o0
bushels per annum during the last FIVE
years. Of the meager exports from such
countries, however, about one-third has
gone to feed other "non-bread eating
populations of Asia and North Africa.
That is, the "bread-eaters" are dependent
for more than SO per cent Of their Tread
supply upon the regions they occupy.
while the large but wholly indeterminate
wheat areas and product of Asiatic Tur-
key, Persia, and large parts of North
Africa, practically contribute nothing TO
that supply, and their inclusion in any
estimate, further than to show the vol
ume OF portion of their exports reaching
the "bread-eaters" of European lineage. !
but complicates a problem sufficiently
complex in its best
If it is a fact that the wheat harvest
of that part of the world that furnishes
the supply Of the "bread-eaters" has
given, as estimated by the authorities
named, an outturn of some 2,3S7 00O,00O
bushels. then with such exports as may
be made from India, Tunis, Algeria and
Asiatic Turkey egypt, contrary to the I
belief Of our estimators, having become /
a permanent importer, the bread eating I
world viii have an ample supply if unit /.
requirements 90 not exceed those of the I
last decade. With a present ''bread-eat- /
ing population of $50 600 600 the require /
ments will be some z.05O.0O geo bushels \
for food, and $40 100000 to seed the 1S5. o00-
600 acres likely to be sown for the har-
vest OF 1902 It is altogether probable I
that the available remanders from the
last three harvests aggregate 100000 COO /
bushels. and that the supply viii not
be largely deficient even il any tentative
is nearer the mark than either
Of those mentioned, provided the feeding
OF wheat to farm animals in no more
prevalent than most wrlJers for the com
mercial and trade papers estimate. From
ing Will be vastly greater than in lS9i,
when the same people estimated that
100000 to 100000 were fed in the
United States. A, that time both corn
and wheat brought lower prices-fully SO
per cent lower than now-but the supply
IF corn was relatively much greater not
only in the United States as a whole, but
especially in the greater swine growing
states.
That enormous quantities Of wheat are
going to be fed to swine in Kansas and
great quantities TO horses and cattle goes
without saying. The estimate Of ~ p0
bushels as the probable extent OF the
seasons feeding attributed to F. d. Co
'urn. probably incorrectly, being an as
doubled 90 eongeduETAOn ,..1z3f56 {
onishing low one. and likely 70 be 7
doubled before new corn is available In ]
he autumn OF 1852. Either great GUAM 7
tiles Of wheat must be fed OF the pack Z
rs combine" of which some live stock q
rokers are complaining, VIII be unable 10
eep hogs below the s. mark long; and I Z