Great Bains at Home.

Bush Advocate, Issue 355, 19 August 1890, Page 3

Great Bains at Home.

The Wheat Crop is Likely to be Bad,

Despatches from London of July 20th speak of the heaviest rainfall known in 'any one week since 1878. 'The pecuniary loss to the farmers 5b something terrible. Between Siwpperton and London there were hundreds of acres of meadown land in whiek the cocked hay was four-' fifths undfir water. Two bright -and hot days iv the middle of the

Week revived hopes that after all the wheat might hs jsavecL in something not too far below the average prop, but subsequent tropicial rains >and an active temperature have dissipated J? ljQp J ©s l^, t ;^here is ljikely to be" the worst crop yield since the disastrous year of 1879. The stock of England wheat is now , ill 3 but4xHautetia, j an f d 'under, tfie' influence of this and the dishearfeW ; ing prospects of the growing crop prices have adiv,anried aiboht another shilling per quarter during the Similar stories come from the continent, but some are disposed to believe that Russia has a fair crop. A despatch dated Paris, JTuly 25th, . s.ayj3 . that the crops throughout^ France, except in the flection east of the Rhone, have been destroyed by incessant rains, the losses! being estimated' at 5 oVer 500,000,000 francs. Dealers in I grain are discounting the scarcity, and the.^r^e qf^r^acl is r^iiig.