REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



451 



WHEAT CROP OF THE WORLD IN 1886. 



In the following table the figures for Austria-Hungary, France, 

 Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Russia (except Poland), Sweden, 

 and India, as well as those for the United States, are official; but 

 only those last named and those for Great Britain and Ireland are 

 the final estimates, unless those for India may be so considered. In 

 the figures for Canada are included the official returns for Ontario 

 and an estimate for Manitoba, based on the official estimate of the 

 area and rate of yield. These two provinces produce nearly nine- 

 tenths of the wheat crop of the Dominion. The figures for Austral- 

 asia are official, with the exception of those for South Australia, 

 which are from the Adelaide Observer. The countries thus far 

 named furnish about four-fifths of the total product embraced in the 

 table. 



For the countries credited with the remaining one-fifth the figures 

 are unofficial, all except those for Germany being taken from a table 

 published in the Echo Agricole of September 7, 1886. 



The countries not included in the table are for the most part coun- 

 tries in which wheat holds a very subordinate position among the 

 staple food products, and which have no appreciable influence upon 

 the general wheat trade of the world: 



Countries. 



Bushels. 



America: 



United States 



Canada 



Argentine Republic and Chili. 

 Eui'ope: 



Austria-Hungary* 



Belgium 



Denmark 



France 



Germanj^ 



Great Britain and Ireland 



Greece 



Italy 



Netherlands 



Portugal 



457,218,000 

 37.219,331 



38,800,625 



143,001,483 



18,514,688 



4,731,531 



299, 107, G20 



82,000,000 



65. 285. 3o3 



4, 9.37, 2.50 



129,412,183 



4,937,2.50 



8,328,750 



Countries. 



Europe— Continued. 

 Roumania . 



22,629,063 

 Russia (including Poland) 213, 907, 084 



Bushels. 



Servia 



Spain 



Sweden and Norway 



Switzerland 



Turkey 



Au.strala.sia | 



India 



Egypt 



Algeria 



Total 



4,525,813 

 131,660,000 

 t4, 081, 115 

 1,645,7.50 

 41,143,750 

 22,258,146 

 258, 317, 632 

 16,457,500 

 .32, 915, 000 



3,032,934,775 



*The figures for Austria Included in this statement are 12,987,000 hectoliters (=36,850,613 bushels) as 

 given in a preliminary official estimate. Those for Hungary are 37,410.000 hectoliters (100,150,875 bush- 

 els), as given in the second estimate made by the Hungarian ministry of agriculture. 



t The preliminary official figures for Sweden are l,*:i9,600 hectoliter-s, or 3,801,115 bushels, to whieh 

 230,000 bushels are added for Norway. 



JThe wheat crop of Queensland is gathered in the latter part of the year, and the crop for this col- 

 ony (51,598 bushels), included in the total for Australasia, is the one gathered in the latter part of 1885, 

 which may, however, be regarded as belonging to the same season as the crops which, in the moi'e 

 southern colonies, wei-e maiuly harvested in the early part of 1886. 



FOREIGN FARM STATISTICS. 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



The following table compiled from the "Agricultural Produce Sta- 

 rtles" of Great Britain and the •■'Agricultural Statistics" of Ireland, 



tistic 



both official i)ublications. shoAvs the area and produce of the principal 

 crops of these countries for the years 1884. 1885, and 1886, these three 

 years comprising the entire period for which statistics of produce in 

 Great Britain have been published. The cereal returns for Great 

 Britain are reduced from Imperial to Winchester bushels at the rate 



