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delivery to the applicant, or unless, before the issue of an advice note, 

 written instructions aie received from the consignee authorzing 

 delivery to the applicant, or unless the applicant is a third party 

 through, or to the care of whom, the goods are consigned. Any such 

 authority will he retained by the Administration as an order by the 

 consignee to deliver to the applicant. Consignees may leave with 

 the Administration a general delivery older in the prescribed form 

 instead of a delivery order for each consignment. 



Prospects of Cereal Crops and of Supply. 



According to the June, 1920, Bulletin of Agricultural and Com- 

 mercial Statistics, just published by the International Institute of 

 Agriculture, Rome, the official estimate of the winter wheat crop of 

 the United States of 1920 is 13.7 million tons, and that of the spring 

 crop 7.5 millions, a total of 21.2 million tons, or 27 per cent, below 

 that of last year, though only 4.9 per cent, less than the average of 

 the five years 1914 to 1918. It should be remembered, however, that 

 the actual quantity exported from the United States during the 

 current season is below the available surplus, so that stocks at the 

 end of this period will be greater than those held last year. 



Canada reports an area under wheat 17 per cent, above the 

 average from 1914 to 1918, also an excellent crop prospect, and it 

 is therefore permissible to estimate that the yield will be equal to 

 the average of the period mentioned, and much larger than it was 

 in 1919. 



On the basis of these statements, it is reasonable to expect that 

 the North American exportable surplus of wheat for the season 

 1920-21 will be larger than the exports during 1919-20, 



Government control of wheat ceased in the United States on 

 1st June. 



Crop conditions for wheat are favourable in Germany, Bulgaria, 

 France, England, Wales, Ireland, Luxemburg, Sweden, Egypt; and 

 average in Scotland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and Czecho-Slovakia. 

 In Hungaiy injury lias occurred owing to great heat in May. 



The estimates of the recent wheat crops in British India have 

 been increased to 10.2 millions, and the new season is reported as 

 developing normally. 



The rye crops are favourably mentioned in France, Sweden, and 

 Switzerland, as in average condition in Germany, Italy, and Luxem- 

 burg, and as poor in Poland and Czecho-Slovakio. 



Vines and olives promise well in Italy. 



Referring to the crops of the Southern Hemisphere for 1919-20, 

 the Bulletin for May, 1920, states that the maize crop in Argentina 

 is estimated at 32 per cent, over the average for the five years 1913-14 

 to 1917-18. This large yield may be an important factor in the 

 cereal resources of the coming season. 



Productive Wealth of the Union. 



The three great sources of production in the Union are from agricul- 

 ture, mining, and factories. No official statistics have yet been pub- 

 lished on the valuation of our agricultural production, but the matter 



