World Crops. 



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WORLD CROPS. 



Wheat and Rye Supply. 



AccoKDiNG to advice cabled on the 9th May to the Department by the Inter- 

 national Institute of Agi-iciilture, Rome, it is estimated that the available 

 world supplies of wheat and rye will be sufficient to cover requirements in these 

 commodities until tlic world's new harvest will be available at the beginning of 

 August, 1921. 



TUK AcilK ULTUltAL POSITION. 



As supijleiiu'iitaiy to earlier advices, it is observed that tlu' March, 1921, 

 report of the Ijistitute announces a moderate increase in the area sown with 

 winter wlieat, as compared with last year, in ik'Igium, Bulgaria, Spain, b'rance, 

 Finland, Great Britain, Norway, J^ounnuiia, and Nortli Africa, while in Poland 

 and the United States a slight decrease is indicated. Rye was sown on a full 

 area, excepting in Spain and the United States. 'I'hc prospects of botli cereals 

 may be considered as favourable in all the countru's already mentioned, while 

 tiic outlook in Hungary is very good and in Italy it is an average. 



The most recent advices from India repor^ the area under wheat as 

 85 per cent, of that of last season, and ])rospects below average. 



The data now to hand as regards sugar yields comprise the api)roximate 

 totals from countries representing about 70 per cent, of the world's crops, and 

 indicate an aggregate- of about -1.1 million metric tons of unrefined beet sugar, 

 being 44 per cent, more than ilic corresp'onding returns of last season. 



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New Tariff for Export Grain, etc. 



Attention is directed to tlie subjoined revised tariff of fees for tlie 

 inspection and grading of grain, etc., at the ports prior to shipment. 

 The tariff, wliich came into force on the 1st April, 1921, is designed 

 to ensure greater uniformity in the charges, and the resultant revenue 

 is expected to be higher than in the case of the prior tarifl^. In respect 

 of- muize graded inland it will be oi)served tliat the fee is Id. per 

 bag" : — ■ 



Maize (iov export only), millet, kathr corn, wheat, rye, barley, 

 beans, peas, oats, bran, maize meal, hominy chop, and other mill 

 feeds, hd. per bag: oat-hay, lucerne, compressed fodder, and other 

 hay, (!(1. i)er ion; lucerne seed, -jd. ])er bag; maize (graded inland), 

 Id. per bag. 



