Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27
WHEAT CROP EXPECTED
TO Be REC0RD-BREAKER
Increase of More Than 200, 900. 900
Bushels Looked for in
United States.

Those in position to know state that
the wheat crop of the United States
this year will be a record-breaker and
that there will be an increase of more
than 2OOOOO,00o bushels over last year.
To balance these expectations. how
ever, the world crop in wheat will not
be above the average. according to the
belief of Charles NJ. Dougherty of the
bureau of statistics. who is vitality inter-
ested in wheat.
1.-The farmer of today" declared Mr..
Dougherty lis interested in his own
crop solely, but the time is coming when
he will be forced to regard wheat from
the standpoint of the worlds market.
Wheat is a world crop, and the price OF
wheat is world price. While there
will be a large increase in the number
of bushels harvested in this country this
year, to balance against this gain in
America we must put probable loss OF
125.OO0,00o bushels outside the United
States. So from the standpoint of the
worlds crop there will be no especial
advantage this year.
Crop of Worldwide Interest.
THE world viewpoint of the wheat
crop will come, as the world viewpoint
in the matter of the brotherhood of man
is gaining in the world consciousness.
Wheat is the one essential food to all
peoples. and the one great grain in which
the whole world is interested. The price
of wheat is not made in the United
States, but in the world, and the sooner
the farmers of the country realize it the
better it will be for Them
Mr.. Dougherty pointed out that the
world harvest season does not begin in
December, as is commonly stated, bu,
begins in October.
Taking the equator as the base, said
Mr.. Dougherty, the worlds wheat CROP
starts in Ecuador, one of the few places
on the meridian where wheat is har-
vested, and moves straight toward the
south pole, down through the limits OF
wheat culture in Argentina
"The last crop to the south Is har-
vested about February. Then the move
ment starts the other way. Beginning In
March with the first harvests in the
British Indies and southern China, the
harvest moves north until it is complet-
ed in the highest limits of growth, in
Scotland. in October Probably some lit
tie wheat is being harvested in Ecuador
and Scotland at about the same time.
Worthy of Poets Pen.
1.-The picturesque feature of the worlds
wheat harvest" continued Mr.. Dougher.
ty. lis something which the average per
son hardly ever thinks of. but which Is
| worthy of poets pen. nevertheless
Think of the harvesting of the worlds
wheat crop. Not the harvest of oul
own country alone, but Of the whole
round world. The work is done by mer
of every race under the summer wearing
every sort of costume. using all kinds OF
instruments. Hardly a day goes by
without wheat activity of some sort
the sowing, the cultivation, Ele harvest
ing. the slowing. the marketing and sale
without some phase of the great worlC
harvest being carried on in some part OF
the world.
Around the World with the Wheat
Crop it seems to me. would be a goot
title for a great book some day. by some
author who is capable of handling the
subject in a manner worthy of wheat