Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-08-23
U. 5. WHEAT CROP IN IMPORTANT ROLE Many Figure Greatly In Outcome of Present
 European War NEED OUR PRODUCTS Aside From Russia Only Two Nations Involved In War Produce More
 Cereals Than They Need For
 Their Consumption.
NEED OUR PRODUCTS
(By Jonathan Winfield.)

Washington, Aug. 22.-Despite the United States is taking no active part in the European war it is apparent to all watchers that Uncie Sam and his vast wheat crop are playing a most important role ill the hOstillties and up the measure in which the contest ing countries obtain their foodstuffs from the United States may depend the final outcome of the struggle.
 The United States produces more wheat than any other single country in the world.
 Only one of the warning powers (Russia) produces more food than she needs for her own consumption. Germany and Austria are practical ly helpless in the market, if cat o11 from foreign production.
 Government officials now go so lar as to predict that, should we have another civil war which would crip- pie Our internal industries and tie up shipping the rest of the world would practically starve. All of which goes to show the vital posi- ton held by the United States, not only in the present war, but in the future of the world itself
 In the present war the United States, with bumper crops, a wheat production of 250,000,000 bushels more than the average for the past ten years and occupying a position of absolute neutrality with the power to enforce that neutrality, will be able to make it's own terms.
 ciIo fro,,o p,ccio Ivy tWn nations involved in war produce more cereals of any kind than they need for their own consumption. Germany exports 7,O54, ,9O7 bushels of rye annually and Austria Hungary raises annually 19.- | 646.575 bushels more of barley than | is consumed within her borders. In meat products the countries al | lied with the Triple Entente produce nearly twice as many cattle and five times as many sheen as do Germany and Austria Hungary combined. The tenutonic allies, however. produce about oEe-third more swine than do their opponents, but pork makes poor food for "a marching army.
 Germany and Austria-Hungary, with total population of 110.432, TAO, face an annual shortage in wheat of 72,0O0,000 bushels, the average year ly consumption per capita for these two countries being 3.99 bushels un- der ordinary circumstances.
 Need Our Wheat.
 | The countries of the Triple Entente face net shortage of wheat of 9O,OOO.000 spread over population of 25O.142.525. The average per cap ita consumption annually for the countries which do not export is 7.73 bushels. Russia alone of all the countries in the Triple Entente ex- ports wheat She annually sends abroad 15O,000000 bushels. This av- craze has allowed Russia to maintain the lead of the wheat-growing coun- tries up to this year. With the add ed advantage of the war in Europe the United States will jump far in the van, but first place would have been hers anyhow on account of her ! bumper crops.
 Russia has an advantage oyer all the other countries engaged in the war because of immense output of all kinds of cereals. Aside from her export of more than 15O,000.000 bush
  | upward of 40,000000 bushels and her trade is one of the largest in the world.
 In contrast to the figures of all countries. except Russia, statistics for the United States show that of the cereals we import soaly rice and a comparatively small amount of that. On the other hand, our exports in many cases exceed the imports of some of the larger countries.
 The live stock figures for the countries embroiied show that the Dual Alliance raises 37,920,000 cattle, SC, AGA 900 swine and 19,270,000 sheep against 65,76600O cattle 25.972,o00 swine and 96,277000 sheep for the Triple Entente and their allies. Ex- cept ia the cases of Indian and Si- erian wheat these figures do not take in the exports of the various colon ial possessions.