Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — ESTIMATE OF YEAR’S WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

ESTIMATE OF YEAR’S WHEAT.

I eduction of 327,000,000rua’iel* from LMtVe ir’a World's Crop. In a bulletin issued by the Agricultural Department a careful analysis is given of the wheat crop of the world for 1899 based upon the estimates of recognized conservative authorities. The production was.estimated by the Department of Agriculture in 1898 at 2,907,700,000 bushels. Beerbohm estimates the production the la£f J season at 2.445,000.000 bushels, the BuTMttin des Hailes at 2,510,000,000 and tbe'Hungariau minister of agriculture at from 2,453,000,000 to 2,477,000,000 bushels. tit a carefully tabulated statement it is shown that these estimates do not cover the same field; that some of them include ’epphtrfes omitted by others. Setting differences and taking the Coub tries which are included in ail four tff’the estimates the following result is Stained: Estimate of Department of Agriculture, 1898, 2,798,000,000 bushels; estimate Beerbohm’s Corn-Trade List, 1899, 2,393,000,000 bushels; estimate Bulletin des Halles, 1599, 2.489,000,000 bushels; estimate Hungarian ministry, 1899, 2,453,000,000 to 2,477,000,000. It has already been seen by the report of the Agricultural Department that supplementing the estimates for 1899 by the additions for omitted countries which are included in the estimate of the Department of Agriculture for 1898 and then comparing the latter with the mean of the three estimates as so modified, we get 327.000,000 bushels as the quantity by which this year’s wheat crop falls below that of last year. On the whole a reduction of more than 300,000,000 bushels is pretty safely inferred, and it would seem that during the current crop year the farmer should obtain satisfactory prices for his wheat.