Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1883 — Wheat Growing Interests. [ARTICLE]

Wheat Growing Interests.

Philadelphia Inquirer. Front the best attainable information concerning the relative positions of leading European wheat-growing countries, Russia is believed to stand at the head; France occupying the second,and AustroHungary the third place on the list. The wheat grown in Great Britain finds a home market, and, although Germany makes some shipments, her imports largely exceed her exports. Much of the Austrian and Hungarian wheat is consumed at home; but it is thought that the residents of these countries, i| ; a marked rise in prices should take place, woiild sell their wheat, and use rye even more extensively than at present. Russia would follow this example. India’s wheat exports are large and will become larger in the future. The shipments represent an unusually high per centage of the production, because, the staple food of the natives being rice, the demands of the home market are comparatively trifling. 1