Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-25
Miseellaneuas gsadine.
THE COMING HARVEST.
Great Interest In the Years Wheat
Crop.

Wheat harvest has begun in Tex
As" Is a message that reaches the GEN.
trail grain markets every year In the
last week of May or about the first of
June. The announcement came re-
Gently, and it is Of more significance
this year than usual, because Of the
exhaustion of old wheat supplies anu
the extraordinarily high prices pre-
yailing in most of the winter wheat
area. Texas Is not an important wheat
state. 1t raised 100000 bushels In
1908 and 100000 bushels In 1908.
This year it's crop is not expected to
be over 100000 bushels, owing to a
drought that has been ex-
perienced there. But the beginning OF
harvest in Texas means that the mills
of that state will be able to supply
their demands from their home crop
at least for a time, and 1t is the fore
runner of the gradual spread OF the
harvest over the entire 45,000,000 acres
Of wheat now growing in the United
States.
Within three weeks the earliest
wheat of Oklahoma will be ready to
cut. In the latter part Of June the soft
wheat of southern Missouri and south
ern Kansas and Kentucky and Ten
nessee will begin to fall before the
machines. About July l the great
Kansas crop, constituting nearly a
fifth of the entire winter wheat pro-
duction of the United States, will be
ready to garner. A little later the
clatter of the binders and headers Will
be heard in Nebraska, and in August
the spring wheat of the Dakotas and
Minnesota will be ripe.
Never since the grain trade has been
organized as at present has this coun-
try come so near to exhausting Its
supply Of wheat as this year. In Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, In
diana, Illinois and Ohio farmers
granaries are swept clean and many
mills have not enough wheat to keep
them going until new grain Is availa-
BILE. Except in Chicago, Minneapolis
and Duluth, there is little wheat at
any market centre. The occasional car
of good soft wheat that reaches Kan
sas City and st. Louis sells at over
s1.50 a bushel, nearly double a normal
price for wheat.
Because Of this exhaustion of old
wheat supplies, the coming of harvest
is watched for with unusual interest
this year, and there will be more COM
petition for the first cars Of new wheat
that come to market than ever before
The production of wheat in the Unit
ed States last year was 664,000,00O
bushels, including 437,O00.0O0 bushels
of winter wheat and 226,000,000 BUSH
els Of spring wheat. The requirements
for bread and seed are about 550,00O.-
900 bushels. Owing to the dry weather
last fall a deficiency Of 2,500,000 acres
in the area, and damage this spring In
Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas by dry
weather, the winter wheat crop Is not
expected to exceed 390,000,000 bushels
this year, or 100000 bushels less
than last year. II there should be
even a moderate deficiency In the
spring wheat crop, the country would
come nearer to being on short rations
than ever before in recent years. But
the conditions are favor
able for a much larger spring wheat
crop than last year, and the probabili-
ties are that the United States will
have at least a moderate supply OF
wheat in excess of home needs.
At the present time, owing to the
scarcity Of old wheat, prices are high
er in the United States than in Liver
pool-a condition that has existed only
two or three times in generation OF
more.
The wheat crop in Kansas and Ne
braska Is about ten days to two weeks
behind a normal growth for this sea-
son of the year, a fact which has caus-
ed some excitable spectators to doubt
whether much wheat will be available
to fill July contracts. But experienced
wheat raisers say that normal wheat
in June will bring on the harvest at
about the usual time.
Stocks Of wheat in Europe are ex-
pected to be reduced to small proper
tions before a new crop is raised. The
worlds production Of wheat for two
years has been below the worlds re-
quirements. The deficiency has been
made up out of the surplus from pre-
ceding crops. Last year the worlds
crop was 3,172,000,000 bushels; two
years ago, 3.142,000,O0O bushels. In
1906 3,432,O0O,OOO bushels were raised
and in 1905 the crop was 1880, 100000
bushels. There will be little surplus
to carry over this year anywhere, SO
that millers, grain dealers and spec
ulators are watching with acute in
terest the growth of the crops in all
parts of the world. Europe, like the
United States, has had late spring
and in Germany there is an unprom-
Using outlook for fall-sowing grain
The Argentine crop was less than last
years, but those of India and Austria
liza were larger. In most other import
ant wheat countries the prospect is
fair to good.
Nearly every schoolboy knows that
a wheat harvest is in progress some-
where in the world every month in the
year, but 80 per cent Of the total pro-
duction is in the northern hemisphere
with harvest corresponding approxi-
mately to the season in the United
States. Here is the worlds wheat
harvest calendar: December and jan
uary, Argentina and Australia; Feb
ruary and March, East India and Up
per Egypt; April, Lower Egypt. Asia
Minor, India and Mexico; May, North
ern Africa, China, Japan and Texas;
June and July, all the chief winter
wheat areas Of the United States and
Europe; August, the chief spring wheat
areas Of North America and Eu-
rope; September and October, Scot
land, Sweden and Norway; Novem-
ber. Peru and South Africa.-Kansas
City Times.