Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1879 — Grain in Europe and America. [ARTICLE]

Grain in Europe and America.

Europe produces now, on an average, i 5,000,000,000 bushels of grain, of which Russia produces one-third, Germany and France 520,000,000 each, and Austria 500,000,000. The United States produces 1,600,000,000 bushels, or about the same as Russia. In order to appreciate the advantages of the United States, the population should be taken into account. This is for the United States 40,000,000, and therefore we produce forty bushels per head; while Europe, with a population of quite 300,000,000, produces sixteen bushels; Russia twenty-six bushels per head, and Great Britain only four bushels per head. As the average quantity of grain consumed, per head, is fifteen bushels, we produce nearly three times as much as we want. Russia scarcely twice its wants, Europe, on an all needed, but Great Britain not much more than one-fourth. It will be seen that the general production far surpasses the consumption, but this excess is absorbed by breweries and distilleries all over the world, which do more to keep the price of breadstuffs at a high figure than anything else.— San Francisco Commercial Advocate. There are five Chinese opium dens in Oakland, Cal., patronized by white men and women, and sixteen frequented excltisively by Chinamen.