THE AMERICAN HARVEST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 274, 1 November 1880, Page 4

THE AMERICAN HARVEST.

Speaking of tbe American crops, the New York Tribune dated July 21 says: — Harvesting has fairly begun as far north as the upper line of Illinois and Nebraska, and tie yield in Central lowa is reported as probably om -third larger than that of last year. In Illinois, according to the State Board of Agriculture, the acreage of wheat is 20 per cent greater than in 1879, and, though some injury has been sustained, since July 1, it is. thought that the yield will exceed that of 1879 by 6,000,000 bushels or more. The official report of the State of Michigan bliowi an increase of 283,481 acres, or 15 per cent, and present advices seem to justify the expectation that the yield will be increased 4,000,000, bushels. Indiana and Ohio have saved a crop as large or larger, it is believed, than that of 1879 and the yield in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska has undoubtedly been larger. The possibility of decrease in yield is mainly confined to "Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Upper lowa. From California it is reported that the yield wi'l be very heavy, and that increased acreage will make up for any injury bubtained in some localities from unfavourable weather. Perhaps the closest estimate that can now be made is that the crop wight possibly be reduced, by unexpected injuiy in Michigan and the Territories, and the loss of two-thirds of .the grain in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Northern lowa, to about 420,000, 000 bushels j that. it might possibly be increased by favorable weather from ;bis time until the end of'the harvesting to" 480,000,000 bushels; and that the probabilities at present point to a yield not materially greater or less than that of 1879— namely, about 450,000,000 bushel;?. It is still too early to form any opinion of much value as to the crops in Europe. If the report proves true, however, that the injury to the crops in Eussia is so great that there will be no surplus for export, or no exports permitted'; that change alone will increase by nearly 50,000,000 bushels the quantity which Europe will be compelled to draw from America. The latest indications are that there will be a Bhort crop in Great Britain and Trance, and yet a considerably larger, yield than that of last. year. Hence it is too early to judge whether the foreign demand will be sufficient to afford a market for the supposed minimum yield this year in the United States. Out of a crop of 450,000,000 bushels we have exported about 180,000,000, and if the yield should be reduced to 420, 000,000 this year, there would still be needed a foreign market for about 150;000,000 bushels. . The largest quantity exported in any fiscal year prior to 1879 was 73,654 621 bushels' in 1878,: besides 4,000,000- barrels of flour — the equivalent of about 92,000, 000 bushels of wheat in. all. If the foreign demand should not . be lareei than it was last year we should probably have left on our hands an unmarketable surplus of over 60,000,000, bushels, but so far it may be expected that the demand will be larger.

9Dd there were nearly cheere from the 6hpre. Men clembered aboard and secured berth?, or did without them, and many of (he incoming passengers or. ranged at once for the return passage without lending at all The Herald's reporter sayp, if properly worked, Bermague should provß a good little fidld, bat it will scarcely meet the expectations of some claimholders j^^J

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