THE UNITED STATES WHEAT CEOP.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 55, 27 December 1882, Page 3

THE UNITED STATES WHEAT CEOP.

* Writing on the position of th wheat crop in the United States, ani its probable influence upon prices, th > New York Journal of Commerce, un tier date 14f.1i September, has the fol lowing : — ' Thrre are certain plaii facts to be considered. 'Iho whea crop in the United States this yea will be about 600,000,000 bushel* against 880,000.000 in 1881 am 480,000,000 in 1880. The home con sumption, even with low prices ruling cannot exc>-d 090,000,000 lmsh-ls and la»t year was noc ove- 'Jo.0';0,00( ! ush^lrt. Taki-:<2 the hi.-hpst figure a> the nuts of til'? country, «c inns 1 b -ivp a surplus <,f a? hunt I? o,UoO.U'<j bushels. f*nr export^, rofknumsr rh r flour in wliHMt were IPO.UoO.OUO tot Ljh year t-uuiuif '60 ' li Ju:ie, lfsrfUj 18G,00) ; 000 for iht- year ending 30ch June, 1881; and i« r the year euriinp BOtli Jim-, 18812, 1-J2 00U.010. i. c i-h cif ihe la&t th.cc jeais tht f jcc gp. hat vests were more or les« deficient, Lv our own cro[i being a little short last year the high r prices interfered wi.h our < xjtorts. I liis year ahiio-t all the c untri'-s to which we send our grain have v fair average t-rup ot their cwu. Great Britain has a need «lto^tl.er or 19J.000 000 hii: hels, of which this year h r own iieldd pro.luc« 8.5,000,000 bushi'ls, 1-aviuj her bui. 107,000,000 bushels to buy from all the sources ot sujiplv. Fiance hus bought c<»usidera 1^ ul us, lipt parcliast's in 1881 amounting to 30.U00.000 bushels, but this yea* sha will need but little in ud-Jiuon to her own pro.-'vet.