The Coffee Crop

Housekeepers will bo sorry to hoar that tho price of coffee is likely to advancV and that even tho unusualïy high fin-ure' will probably bo increased. The cause is a short erop in the two chief coffeo pro. ducing countries- Brazil and the East Indies. Importers often invent reasons for tha failure of prospectivo crops, bon ing theroby to frighten buyers into' 1Wy ing better prices, but this time the scare seems to havo a foundatiou in fact. R0 or Brazil coffeo, which is the mainstay of the coffee trade, is in short stook, tho whole amount in the United States bein less by about 40,000 bags than at the cor responding time last year. Tbis is Eot of itself significant when we considor that the yearly import exceeds one million bags of Rio coffee but is plain that with even with theaverstock on hand a deficiënt supply for the coming season must cause considerable advances in prices. Advices from the districts are unfavorable, and it is predicted th at thereceipts this yoar will 1 unusually