406 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OP AGRICULTURE. 



Table shotinng the estimated number and value of animals on farms — Continued. 



WHEAT AND CORN. 



SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR FIVE YEARS. 



A resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States 

 called upon the Department of Agriculture to give the amount of 

 wheat and corn on hand in this country, where located, with proba- 

 ble requirements, to September 1, 18S(J, as compared with amounts 

 on hand at similar periods during the previous five years; the num- 

 ber of acres of spring and winter wheat growing, each respectively, 

 to produce the crops of 1886, with acreage for each of the five pre- 

 ceding years; the amount of wlieat and corn, each respectively, likely 

 to be required by each imj)ortiiig country, witli present surplus on 

 hand in each exporting country to supply such requirements until 

 September 1, 1886; the area of wheat sown in all other countries for 

 the crop of 1886, with j^robable surplus or shortage in each country. 



On the 29th of May a report was made by the Statistician and 

 communicated to the House, showing: concisely: 



(1) (a) Stocks on hand in the United States; (b) requirements to 

 September 1. 



(2) Acreage of crop of 1886. 



(3) (a) Production in Europe; (6) European commercial supply. 

 (•4) European stocks on hand. 



(5) The coming crops: (a) Wheat; (h) corn. 



It makes the normal consumption of wheat-consuming countries, 

 not including the small amount produced in countries where other 

 grains constitute the diet of the people, about 2,165,000,000 bushels, 

 and finds that the deficency of last year was 89,000,000, and the sur- 



