Show THE CROP HARVESTS Speaking of thc crop reports the New York Evening Post says that the truth of the matter which is now becoming be-coming plain Is that some damage was undoubtedly done to the crowlncr whuat but It was not so serious as to alter the general promise Even on the basis of this months lower condition percentages the wheat crop as a whole Is reasonably assured of a yield never but once exceeded At the moment when this fact In the situation situa-tion Is made plain comes an export movement of our surplus wheat wholly beyond any precedent In our history Two weeks ago the countrys wlymt shipments for thc week rose 1500000 bushels above thc high record of the trade reached In the European fam lad year Last week the movement was a quarter of a million bushels larger I Todays figures break all dally reeords For the two weeks total shipments ship-ments have been yjory nearly three times as great as In the corresponding perfod last year So extraordinary a movenient la better witness to the real situation of Europes growing crops than arc trade dispatches and estimates esti-mates which for various reasons arc frequently misleading And In fact Saturdays cables brought what appeared ap-peared 10 bo an official forecast of the Russian crop showing the earlier estimates I es-timates ofctn unusually heavy yield to have been entirely erroneous If this summary is correct there is small probability that the heavy wheat shortage in Germany and the reduced yield elsewhere on the continent will b i to any extent made good by In creased exports from that country In such an event It Is again America as in 1SO and 1897 on which the consum ing outsldo world must almost wholly depend That there should be a prom ised surplus from our wheat crop am ply sufficient to meet all these enlarged demands Is another Insiance of Amerl cas good fortune |