Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — South American Wheat. [ARTICLE]

South American Wheat.

The exports of wheat from Buenos Ayres during the three months ending March 31 were over 1,000,000 bags, more than double those for the corresponding period of the previous year, and when It Is considered that J 803 was the greatest wheat year in tho history of the Argentine Republic it means a great deal. The total exports of wheat to Europe and Brazil, last year, surpassed 1,000,000 tons, and for the present year the exports a;e expected to exceed 2,000,000 tons. In Uruguay, across tho river, the same conditions exist, and the crop is so large that the railways cannot furnish sufficient cars to haul it to tide-water. A private letter says that the Central Uruguay railway, which passes through the wheat belt of the country, has filled every available inch of storage room It possesses with wheat in bags, using the engine and coach sheds, the carpenter and repair shops, and even tho superfluous room in the station houses along the line. The total crop this year is estimated at more than twice what it was last, and tho acreage that Is now being ploughed for wheat will make next year’s crop five-hundred per cent, larger.—Chicago Record.