Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-10-25
REPORT orr CROPS OF WORLD.
Government Figures show the Harvest
Abrond Is Very Late.

ADTOAu AS CRY AAeAS~s
The Department of Agriculture's sum-
mary of the crops of the world shows
that owing to the remarkably cool ana
wet summer in considerable part OF Eu-
rope the harvest of 1902 is one of the
latest on record. The promise Of an
abundant yield, therefore, has been only
partly fulfilled in Europe, allowing Tor
grain gathered in q damaged condition
and for that actually spoiled. In the
case Of bread grains there will be a de-
mand among millers in the countries SO
suffering for good, dry grain to mix with
the home product. Conslderei by coun-
tries, the report says:
The semi-official Russian estimate makes
the wheat, rye, barley and oats crop OF that
country not only larger than In 1901, but
exceeding the average for the five years
1896 1900. The estimate puts the winter
wheat crop at 186, 49,, 3S7 bushels OF sixty
pounds each spring wheat, 500, 939 333 Dusn,
els of sixty pounds each; rye, So4 49,, t5o
bushels of ffty-six pounds each; barley, zo1,
13O625 bushels Of forty-eight pounds each;
OTIS, S46,S91,s75 bushels of thirty-two POUNDS
each.
Throughout about four-ffths of the Ger
man Empire harvesting was delayed by ire
quent rains, and there was still much grain
in the fields in the middle of September.
The Austrian official reports for Sept. 10 say
that wheat and barley are good, average
crops, while rye Is only medium to good
medium The quality of the grain, SO far
as the harvest was secured under anything
like favorable conditions, is mostly satlsrac-
tory. 60
IS, received at the department here, shows
that maize has suffered from drought In
some districts, the plants producing no ears,
and in others the grain ripened before the
ears attained normal development.
The Roumanian wheat crop is officially es-
timated as the best in many years: For
1902 the production is estimated at 16,22 ~
29S bushels. Rye is estimated at 6,958, 466
bushels; barley, q, 81, O4O bushels, and oats,
q, 400, 2o5 bushels. The Bulgarian cereal
crops are fairly satisfactory The wheat Is
particularly good in yield, though little de-
fcient in quality. The French ministry OF
agriculture has issued preliminary report
giving the wheat production of France as
1852, 100000 bushels, an increase of over Ii
per cent over 1901 The crops in Belgium
are stated to be comparatively sattsfac
tory.
| cultivation Is Is, sos acres greater than In
1901. The recent weather through Great
Britain has greatly helped it's farmers in
completing their belated haryests =.
Harvesting is progressing favorably IN
Denmark. Rye and wheat are Of norma!
yield and good quality. The wheat crop OF
| Italy, according to present indications, Will
be approximately 130,o00,O0O bushels Inc
recent rains in Argentine entirely saved the
| crops and it is expected that the yields Will
exceed last year by over 90 per cent. :.
Wheat areas In Australia nave been nelpeO
| by heavy rains. Generally favorable reports
of coming crops have been received from all
provinces Of India. The rice crop Of Japan,
hurt by the wet summer, probably will be
below the average.
The official estimate Of Spain Is that that
country will have the largest wheat. crop
for many years, and will have a considera-
Bile surplus for expectation.
The Nile flood this year Is the lowest in
the last twenty-five years, although the
scarcity of water will partly be compensated
for by the new works executed by the Brit
ish government, the crops in upper Egypt
available in Egypt will be principally ap-
piled to the cotton CROP leaving beans,
maize lentils, ETC., to bear the chief effect
of the scarcity.