EUROPEAN HARVEST PROSPECTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1968, 12 October 1888, Page 3

EUROPEAN HARVEST PROSPECTS

Harvest proßpeota on the Continent of Furope have not improved (aaya the " Home News" of August 24 ,h), on the whole. In France fine weather has come too late for the wheat orop, which has been nearly all gathered m, and It ia now certain that the yield will be very deficlrnt. Acoordiog to tlw '"MwoutUle den Hallea et Marches," the prodaoo is not llkuly to be much above that of 1879, and It la roughly estimated at the equivalent of 27,400,000 qr. cr 10,300,000 qr, less than last year's crop. Ia Germany, where unsettled weather continued until the beginning of last week, the wheat orop is ao far from satisfactory that " Dornbusch " aaya it Is almost certain that considerable importation wlil be necessary. Nearly all the wheat has been secured In AuslriaHangary, the yield, according to the authority juat named, belnc eatima'ed at 16,000,000 qc, against 18,400,000 q-. for last year. Sp!end?d crops m iloumania have baen seriously iijured by storms of rain and fl )ode, and lv South Knasla wet weather has greatly troubled ths harvesters It has been the samu m Swl zivland until recently ; bat a favorable ohaage has brightened prospects, and the orops are being got up m good condition. In Italy the Minister of Agricultu'e estimates the wheat orop at 12,800,000- qrs., ot at 20 per cent less ihsn average.