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Table showing the average yield per acre of leading crops in the several regions. 
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PWahiedt 3 2k oye cece bush 19.52 | 18.95 | 16.08 | 16.98 | 20,88 
BOWEL cette ees oe staiai = Meo retina 33.30 } 36.17 | 34.74 | 34.45 | 34. 85 
Woeslin{ss 224. 5attsxi2 dose liec dos. 20.67 | 20.67 | 18.37 | 17. 80 | 23.21 
Oy? @ be ace Reetorigh se do 21.82 | 22.11 | 20.67 | 20.10 | 25.38 
BAMOY hee ees esac. do 29.86 | °34.45 | 21.82 | 24.12 | 35.10 
ates. 26 cb Sec.02 2: do 35.60 | 35.60 | 34.45 | 32.16 | 42.47 
Buckwheat. ......-. do 20.67 | 22.97 | 28.71 | 28.71 | 24.87 
Gans Joss0s-. 2.32 do.. 21.82 | 19.52 | 17.23 | 16.65 | 24.52 
Pease and vetches. .do.. 22.97 | 21.82 | 18.37 | 20.67 | 22.80 
Green fodder ....-. tons. 6. 47 9.70 | 4.10] 4.42) 8.82 
2.19 1.88 1.29} 1.45] 1.82 
14. 72 14.72 | 2380] 6.69 | 13.22 
4. 02 4.02 | 5.80] 6.46 4. 50 
2 snaps 6.25 | 4.46 4,91 6. 48 
Ree ere 4502) 312) ) 3.12 ty Sack 
whee 34.45 | 17.23 | 17.23 | 27.94 
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siete oiaterat 8.92) Sage salelne a eee We Oe 
Chiccory: <-/. -2:'--- BOO Geeta ce|| Lt eRe eee || erent tence ab Od Ree cs 7. 04 
Sugar-beets ........ do.. 11/38 | 11.38 | 2.68] 5.36 | 13:72 
The aggregate yield of these various crops for the whole kingdom is 
given as follows: Wheat, 14,657,691 bushels ; spelt, 5,541,975 bushels ; 
meslin, 2,035,442 bushels; rye, 18,123,916 bushels; barley, 3,782,943 
bushels; oats, 24,111,465 bushels ; buckwheat, 1,317,655 bushels ; beans, 
1,470,172 bushels; pease and vetches, 769,083 bushels ; green fodder, 
3,379,312 tons; hay, 948,515 tons; root fodder, 941,345 tons; potatoes, 
1,896,649 tons, 4,669,278 pounds ; flax, 52,281,156 pounds; colza, 1,823,- 
764 bushels; tobacco, 4,934,203 pounds; hops, 10,301,647 pounds ; 
chiccory, $2,144 tons; sugar-beets, 613,101 tons. 
Of the above enumerated crops the spelt, Triticum spelta, is scarcely 
if at all known in this country. It is considerably cultivated on the 
continent of Europe, where it is known by the name of German wheat. 
it is stated in the document before us that it does not produce half as 
much flour as wheat. Meslin, spelled also maslin and mislin, is a mixed 
sowing of wheat and rye, practiced considerably in Europe. 
The highest’ average yield of wheat, 31.16 bushels per acre, is found 
in the region of the Polders, the only region that produces enough of 
this grain to supply the home demand. The lowest average is in the 
Ardennes, 16.08 bushels per acre. The deficiency in this breadstuff is 
made up by,a large foreign import. Neither spelt nor meslin are culti- 
vated in the Polders, but both are in all the other regions. In the Condroz 
proper spelt occupies the largest acreage, 137,936, but the highest aver- 
-age, 37.90 bushels per acre, is found in the zone of Flanders. Meslin is 
largely raised in the loam region, occupying nearly 30,000 acres, but 
its highest average yield is in the zone of Flanders, 29.28 bushels per 
acre. ye, the largest of the grain crops, is produced mostly in the 
sandy and loam regions, but its highest average yield per acre, 36.17, is 
in the Polders. Barley and buckwheat are subordinate and supple- 
mental crops, the latter largely employed in what are called, signifi- 
cantly, stolen crops. Oats are the largest crop grown, though occupy- 
ing but little over half the acreage of either the wheat or the rye crops. 
The largest breadth sown, 150,455 acres, was in the Condroz proper, but 
the largest yield per acre, 54.55 bushels, was in the Polders. Nearly half 
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