Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — WORLD’S WHEAT YIELD [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S WHEAT YIELD

Is Nearly Equalled by the Corn Crop of the United States. The Department of Agriculture's compilation of statistics showing the world’s wheat crop in 1900 brings out the sac( that it was lighter than in either of the two years immediately preceding, and only about 80,000,000 bushels in excess of IS9O. The following summary shows the wheat crop by continents for each of the two years last past: 1000. D9O. North America ... 681,772,000 610,284,003 South America ... 120.157.000 125,146,006 Europe 1,476,142,000 1,622,020,00<; Asia 312,082.000 403.280.00tj Africa 45,400,000 42.373,008 Australasia 60,111,000 66,202,000 Grand total ....2,586,564,000 2,768,205,000 The Siberian wheat crop, which amounted to 45,473,000 bushels in 1899, wns short 55 per cent in 1900, and there was a shortage of 53 per cent in Manitoba. The following table compares the aggregate wheat crop the world over, for ten year* past: Bushels,) Bushel*. 1090.. 2,586.564,000,1806 2,683.312.00* 1880 ... 2,768,206.00011804 2.660.557,000 IHOB. ... 2,042,430.000|1803 2,650.174,000 1807.. .. 2,234.401.000 1802 2,481,806.000 1886.. 2,506,320,000 1801 2,482,822,000 The wheat crop of 1900, it will be seen, was close to the average for the past ten jears. It will also be noted that the wheat crop of the whole world is only one-fifth more, in bushels, than the corn crop of the United States.