The World's Wheat Crop

Our enterprising contemporary, the Free Press, has compiled from various sourcesa vast mimber of f acts and figures about wlieat crops here and everywhere, past, preaent and prospective. We reproduce the following as o! jreneral interest. THE WHEAT OKOP OF THE UNITED STATES for the curreut year will approximate 420,000,000 bushels. From all accounts so far receiyed it woujd appear safe to estímate this year's erop at from 400,000,000 bushels to 425,000,000 bushels. The quality will be much superior to that of last year. The export of wheat and wheat flour from Sept 1, 1878, to Aug.3l, 1879, reduced to bushels, will, it is anticipated, be between 150,000,000 and 160,000,000 bushels. The annual consumption of 46,000,000 population. at four bushels per capita, is 184, 000,000 bushels, and the seeding of 3,000,000 acres of wheat at one and a half bushels to the acre amounts to 48,000,000 bushels. Henee the aggregate of these estimates, including export, is from 382,000,000 bushels to 392,000,000 bushels, which leaves a surplus of from 28,000,000 to 38,000,000 bushels, not considering the 14,489,759 bushels now in store in this country, and the 1,526,321 bushels now on passage from America for the United Kingdom. The vast transactions of this country in wheat and the growing importance of this cereal as an article of commerce is indicated by the enormous volume of exports. Tbe exoorts of wUoat tui üfLy years, trom lfiao w tem amounted to 515,104,214 y bushels, which, with flour reduci g stfeöihels added, gives a total of 1,062,525,959 bushels. From 1875 to 1878, the ex port of wheat, inclusive of flour reduced to bushels, was 402,963,580 bushels. The following tabulated statement of the exports and value of wheat from 1864 to 1878, inclusive, is both instructive and interesting. BuBhel. Value. 1864-'65 22,959,842 t 46,619,228 1865--66 16,494,853 26,239,435 1866-'67 12,646,941 20,626,330 1867-'68 26.323,014 51,135,430 1868-'69 29,717,201 43,297,124 1869-'7O 53,900,780 68,340,822 1870-'Tl 52,574,111 69,236,608 1871--72 38,996,765 56.870,744 1872-'73 52,014,715 70,833,018 1873-'74 91,510,398 130,679,563 1874-'75 72,912,817 83,320,333 1875--76 74,750.782 92,816,369 1876-'77 57,043,938 68,799,508 1877-'78 93,139.296 121,964,842 THE WHEAT CROP OF THE WORLD. Alexander Delmar, who is inclined to reduce rather than increase the generally accepted figures relating to the supply, but more espeeially to the demand, of wheat, forms the following expositiou of the wheat erop of the world, the exports and imports, the figures representing millions : flf gl P ft -: Q'-a I United State 360 360 150 France 280 250 30 Russla , 220 200 5Ó Germany 120 115 15 öpaln 116 100 Italy 107 100 30 .. "" Austro Hunf-ary 102 110 20 United Kingdom 94 90 100 . Turkey 40 30 Boumania 35 40 ......... 20 Algeria , 25 20 Belgium 24 25 Holland 665 Bavaria 20 20 '.. Canada 20 20 Australia 20 20 f 5 Btrypt 8 5 Portugal.... 8 5 5 Greece 5 5 Servia 4 4 Denmark 3 2 Sweden and Noway 3 3 Switzerland 2 2 8 All others 9 8 2 Total - l.qoo l.sKX-0011 qo.s That is. the wheat deficit will, during the harvest year 1879-'80, amount to over 200,000,000 bushels,- say 225,000,000 bushels,- and that the United States will be called upon to supply two-thirds of it. or say 125,000,000 to 150,000,000 bushels ; Kussia 50,000,000 bushels ; Koumania, 20,000,000 bushels ; and Canada, Austria, and India 5,000,000 bushels.