Show THE WORLDS GRANARY on the prairie lands of illinois and in the former steppes of russia in the alpine valley bottoms and in the flats along the course of the father of rivers in the fertile plain of the po and under En glands baky wherever the sturdy tiller of the sail exacts from natures bosom tho bounties of life tho crops are harvest led and the bleak november winds blow empty stubble fields As a whole the human race has again been furnished with the staff of life for another years sustenance te nance W K fard the statistician of having arrived at the conclusion that tho total wheat crop of 1880 exceeds the worlds needs of this chief article of sustenance by bushels from the figures it appears that the united states have again been favored with the lions abare from abo abundant horn of plenty the gross yield of this country ai far as can be as pertained certa ined by the most careful corn of the data famished by the different states and territories has been bushel sot which about bushels or more than seven times the surplus of the whole wheat crop of the world are available for export with this credit balance so notably in our favor it i a matter of course that some of the other countries must bo sadly behind in their cereal produs tion the tries mostly short are great britain bushels franco germany holland and belgium and italy switzerland spain and portugal together about wo see thus that the debit balance is on the side of ane western and central nations of europe while the remaining havo small surpluses the hungary reaching about bushels while in no other case does the excess go over bushels russia is credited with a surplus of as bushels but this surplus will not be for export an imperial ukase already having inter ducted the export ot wheat in cons of the deplorable failure of the rye and maize crops which deficiency is to be nude up by the excess in the wheat production taken altogether the united states have become the worlds granary they are to all li iroe what sicily and spain once were to the roman empire tho farmer of the western slates of america raises the bread for the welsh miner the english weaver the german soldier iho french owner tho italian vin ler pluck and energy toil and thrift baie brought about this miricle of a land which hardly a hundred years ao no mans foot had stepped upon furnishing the bread or the potentates and peasants of europe |