WHEAT STATISTICS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1948, 19 September 1888, Page 2

WHEAT STATISTICS.

(From the » SUtiat," July 2Ut). la many respects the weather, at all event* m the South of England, hat been Buoh as to recall tho metnorablo year of 1879 After a aprlng defiolent In rainfall we have had what by ormrtoey only can bo oalled a summer, with almost Incessant wet, absence of «uaehlne, and oold ao marked that la Jaly the meteorological reports havo given the faot of snow having fallen m parts of the ooantry. la France the same dreary story of wet and oold wea'her when farmers ought to be gathering crops has had to be told. With this lugubrious atato of nfftlra wo have reporta of the winter wheat orop of the United States being deficient. Prloeß of wheat In India aro maoh, and m tho United States a little, hlghor than they wero ia 1887, bat m the United Kingdom quotations early m the month were appreciably 1 >wer than a year »go, the "G»z?tte" average prlao of 31a 5d per quarter oontra,«Uag with 35s at the beginning of Jaly last year. Tho home wheat crop of 1887 was a bumper one, roapod m good condition. Consequently wo havo imported loss m tho current than m tho previous season. From September Ist, 1887, to Juno 30th, 1888, our imports of wheat and flour or the equivalent of wheat have been 13,400,000 m oontraet with 13,930,000 quarters m the corresponding too mouths. In the lost ihroo months of 1887 the arrivals wore largo and o&ussd a rapid decline of about 10 per cent m prices, and no appreciable amount of this decline has be«n rooovered. The imports of wheat and flour m the past six months have ahown some remarkable features. Russia has forwarded an enormous inoreatso compared with last year ; b«t arrivals from the Unitod States have fallen off. The shifting of supply has been euoh as to mont eproial reference. Thus :— Imforts or Whhat and Floob, Ist January to 30th June (m owta).

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Wheat 1888. 1887. 1880. i Buasia „ 7,568,000 1,490,000 2,154,000 j United States 8,367,000 17,628,000 11,865,000 i East Indies 1,897,000 3,603,000 1,579,000 i All other , countries 4,113,000 3,122,000 3,128,000 < Total .. 21945,000 25,743,000 21,727,000* | Flour. • ] UnitedStateß7,23B,ooo 7,7G2,000 5,107,000 I All other , countries 1,436,000 1,279,000 1,540,000 {«