People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — A SHORT CROP. [ARTICLE]

A SHORT CROP.

The Wheat Fields of England Yield

. Poorly. London, Aug. I.—The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says: “W here the wheat crop is bad, it is very bad. Where it is good, it is barely good. The average yield is not expected to exceed 27 bushels to the acre, which will make a total of 7.087,500 quarters, against 8,000,000 quarters in 1892 The growth of root crops, including potatoes, has been highly favorable lately. The cool, showery weather has been advantageous only to oats and barley in backward districts. There will probably be a fair second hay crop and an improvement in the pastures. There is a reduced demand in the market for all sorts of feeding •tuffs.”