Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-27
WHEAT ACREAGE
. ABROAD IS LESS
F. THAN FORMERLY
However, Australia and Ar
gentina Have Large Stocks
of Grain Remaining From
Previous HarVeStS.

New Mexico farmers having gone
heavily into wheat raising ana
gathered in millions of dollars dur
ing the era of high prices for grain;
and having prepared for crops this
year, should read with interest the
following just received by the
journal from the Italian bureau Of
statistics with regard to expected
production in lands that have been
buying American wheat or export
ing to markets in competition with
the growers in the United States:
1.-THE Bulletin of Agricultural and
Commercial Statistics for January
1920, just published by the Interna-
tional Institute of Agriculture of
Rome will increase the interest so
widely felt as to prospective sup
plies of cereals during the spring
and summer months If 1920.
Information is to hand from
Australia stating the yield of the
new wheat crop at twelve million
quintals as compared with twenty
two millions last year, and thirty
one millions on an average which is
normally 35 per cent Of the produc-
ton of wheat in the southern hem
isphere.
I'm alienation of the unsatisfac-
tory results of the crop just reaped.
it should be mentioned that stocks
of wheat from previous harvests
amounting to eighteen million
oUintals were still in existence in
Australia on December 81, 1919.
"As the normal Australian con-
sumption is ten million quintals, the
eXportable surplus for 1920 should
he twenty million quintals, guam
tity considerably above the annual
average pre- war export.
1.-The area under wheat in Argen-
tina indicates a decrease of II per
cent as compared with that of the
previous year and of 9 per cent on
the average from 1913 to 1917.
1.-THE normal yield of wheat in
Argentina provides so per cent of
the aggregate for the southern
hemisphere. There is in Argentina
also a considerable remainder from
the previous wheat crop in stock
and in process of shipment. Very
active tonnage engagements have
taken place for grain loading from
Argentina during the next few
months.
"As regards autumn sowings
for the 1920 wheat crop in the
northern hemisphere the most no.
table feature is the large decrease
in areas under winter wheat and
rye in the United States amounting
to 90 per cent as compared with
those sown for the crop of 1919.
For wheat the comparison with the
average area sown from 1913 to
1917 shows a decrease of 3.5 per
cent. The condition of the wheat
and rye crops on December 1, 1919,
was about an average one. Amend
ed returns of the United States
wheat crop of 1919 show an in
crease of about . per cent as COM
pared with earlier estimates.
Autumn sowings of wheat are
vsported as in favorable condition
u Italy, Japan and Morocco, while
n Great Britain and Belgium the
outlook is about average.
lowing to severe drought in
early autumn, not more than rs
Ger cent of the usual wheat area
Nad been sown in Roumania at the
eNd of 1919.
1.-THE prices quoted for wheat in
9TH bulletin are still mainly those
,icially fixed; those for Canada
We been considerably advanced
IN the current month. subsequently
io the completion of large pur-
chases by the allied governments"
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