Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-09-06
CROPS ARE GREAT.
viii Be Bigger Than Last Year,
but Still Short.
Conclusions Drawn About Worlds Har-
vest Prospects From Reports Re-
celved at the Department of Az
ricuiture Estimates Gathered
From Almost Every Quarter.

fiCuttuFc -EStthlaIeS 1dtHSTS0
From Almost Every Quarter.
Washington.-The season Of year
has come when the department Of
agriculture Is getting a line upon the
growing crops of the world and draw
ing conclusions about harvest pros
poets. It affects the value of crops
at home and also points with some &C
curacy to the likelihood Of prices for
foodstuffs six months hence.
The department estimates are gath
cred from almost every quarter of the
world, and include vast deal of off,
cial information. All in all, it Is more
reliable than the information which
comes from commercial sources, be-
cause of the evident interest of COM
mercial authorities In influencing
prices. The information Of the de-
partment of agriculture is compre-
hensive 1t furnishes much about the
great food staple, wheat, but also
much about feed for animals, about
apples and divers fruits, barley and
hops, in which brewers and masters
are concerned, flaxseed, which Is OF
moment to the great paint Industry,
and 80 on through long category.
The wheat harvest in Europe Is now
beginning. It Is plain that the yield
Is to be much better than last year.
Russia In later times Is always an
uncertain factor as to wheat. The re-
ports from that great domain are al
ways late. 1t looks as though Rus
STA would raise 700,000,000 bushels of
that cereal this season, which Is above
the harvest in Russia during 1909 and
1910. The Russian wheat crop, de-
pleted by severe drought In 1911,
amounted to hardly 500,000,000 bush
els.
Wheat conditions in central and
western Europe are not quite as good
as in 1911, and a wheat shortage Of
about 100000 bushels Is expected
there; but, even taking this into &C
count, there is promise that the wheat
crop of all Europe this summer and
autumn will be between 100 ,000,0 900
and 100000 bushels more than in
1911.
Field crops, such as oats and hay
and other cereals, in which the Eu-
ropean yield for 1911 was phenomenal
ly small, are much better this season,
but sufficiently short to warrant a
continuance Of good prices. The first
cutting of hay IN the European coun-
tries bordering upon the Atlantic
pecan has been noticably short This
will be felt the more keenly because
the surplus crop carried over was al
most nothing.
| The English wheat crop will be
smaller than last year. The French
wheat crop, although sown on 100000
more acres than In 1911, will not ex-
coed that years yield materially The
great object of agriculture in France
/ Is to make the country self-sustain-
! ing but this will be the third year
when the French farmers, in spite of
the high agricultural tariff for their
protection, will not raise all the food
/ stuffs the nation will require. Imports
Of wheat into France were 100000
bushels in 1910 and 1875, 100000 bushels
In 1911
The Spanish wheat crop has been
seriously affected by drought this sum-
mer, and the product will be less than
/ In 1911. The Italian wheat crop Is
expected to show some shortage over
1911. In the Scandinavian countries
wheat, however, Is promising we'll, but
their crop Is comparatively small
Wheat shortages are reported from
Hungary and Roumania, but these will
affect the international market rather
than the consumption requirements at
home.
Canada has become a mighty fac
tor in the raising Of wheat to fur
nish bread for the world. The wheat
acreage in Canada has been increasing
by leaps and bounds In recent times,
and it is claimed that 3,750,000 addi-
tional acres have been sown there dur
ing 1912.
Nowadays men who study the
world supply Of food products are
constantly looking away to the south
ern hemisphere. This is the begin
ming of winter in Argentina, but the
outlook for a tremendous acreage Of
wheat there is much emphasized.
More acres will be under wheat in
Argentina this year than ever, and
that Is true also of fiaxseed and oats
In Australia the sowing has been re-
tarded over a wide region by the lack
of rain, and the drought will probably
result in quite reduction in the crop.
Considerable anxiety exists through
British India as to wheat. because the
monsoons have not come with their
accustomed force.