AFRICA. 



AGRICULTURE. 



IT. ISLANDS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



Geog. sq. 

 Miles. 



Population. 



Cape Verde Islands 77.62 89,310 



St. Thomas and Principe 21.36 12,250 



Fernando Po and Annobon 23.00 5,590 



Ascension 1.8 



St. Helena 2.2 6,860 



Tristan da Cunha 2.1 



Total 128.08 I 114,045 



T. THE NORTHERN COAST. 



Geog. sq. p opu i a tion. 

 Miles. 



Morocco... . 12,200 2,750,000 



Algeria 12,150 2,999,124 



Tunis ' 2,150 600,000 



Tripoli.'.! 16,200 750,000 



Egypt 31,000 7,465,000 



Total 73,700 14,564,124 



Sahara 114,600 4,000,000 



VI. MOHAMMEDAN KINGDOMS OP CENTRAL SOUDAN. 



Population. 



Darfoor . . 5,000 5,000,000 



Vadai 4,730 5,000,000 



Baghirmi 2,660 1,500,000 



Bornoo 2,420 5,000,000 



Sokota andAdamaua 7,960 12,000,000 



Gando 3,880 5,800,000 



Massina. 3,330 4,500,000 



Fellatah kingdoms together. 14,870 22,300,000 



Total 44,850 61,100,000 



VII. THE TERRITORY OF WESTERN SOUDAN. 



Geog. sq. _, 



Miles. Population. 



Yorooba 2,350 3,000,000 



Egbah (capital Abbeokoota) 100,000 



Dahomey 188 150,000 



Ashantee (with the tributary 



Provinces and the Gold Coast) 3,447 4,500,000 



Liberia 450 250,000 



French Senegambia 145,800 



Portuguese Possessions in Sen- 

 egambia : 1,687 1,095 



Dutch Colonies on the Coast of 



Guinea 500 120,000 



Sierra Leone 22 41,806 



Tombo 2,040 



Mossi 1,550 



Independent portion of Gurma. . 880 



Total 13,114 8,308,701 



VIII. EQUATORIAL TERRITORY. 



Geog. sq. Population. 



Miles. 



Territory of the Shilluk 526 500,000 



" " Nuer 929 400,000 



" " Bor 40 10,000 



" " Elyab 69 8,000 



Unknown negro countries on 



both sides of the equator 70,000 42,000,000 



Total 71,564 42,918,000 



AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL 

 CHURCH. (See METHODISTS.) 



AGRICULTURE. The year 1866 was not a 

 very favorable one for agricultural productions. 

 The spring and early summer were cold and 

 backward, and after a short period of intense 

 heat in July, there was, throughout the latter 

 part of that month, the whole of August, and 

 the early part of September, a more frequent 

 and copious rainfall than usual, accompanied by 

 a low temperature, with frost in many sections 

 on September 21st. The long rain and early 

 frost injured the Indian-corn crop in many sec- 

 tions, and caused the wheat to grow after being 

 stacked. In the region of the Ohio River and 

 its tributaries a destructive flood, about the 

 middle of September, injured and in many 

 counties nearly rained the crops. This flood 

 was the result of the excessive rains which, for 

 seventy-five days, had fallen almost constantly. 

 Other sections were also visited by floods, but 

 not with such destructive effect. 



Of the cereals, the wheat crop was estimated 

 by the Agricultural Department at 160,000,000 

 bushels for the States east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, of which 143,000,000 was the product of 

 the twenty-two Northern States (of which sta- 

 tistics were given in 1865), about 5,500,000- 

 bushels less than the previous year in those 

 States, a decrease which was supposed to be 

 fully made up by the superior quality of the 

 grain in 1866. The crop of the eleven South- 

 ern States was nearly 17,000,000 bushels, a little 

 less than one-half that of those States in 1859, 

 the latest date in which there has been any 

 complete return of their crops. 



The yield of wheat on the Pacific coast is in- 

 creasing rapidly. The California crop alone is 

 estimated at over 14,000,000 bushels, of which, 

 it is said, 12,000,000 bushels will be exported. 

 Oregon and Washington Territory, and Neva- 

 da and Utah also produce some wheat. The 

 entire crop of the country may safely be put 

 down at 180,000,000 bushels, or fully five bush- 

 els to each inhabitant. 



The rye crop varies but little from year to 

 year. It is not a very important crop, and 

 during 1866, aside from the Pacific States, 

 where but little is grown, is estimated at 

 21,029,950 bushels. 



The larley crop is also very nearly stationary. 

 The crop, exclusive of the Pacific States, in 

 1866 was 11,465,653 bushels, while that of 1859 

 was 11,146,695 bushels. Only 110,773 bushels 

 are reported aa given in the eleven Southern 

 States in 1866. 



The oat crop is said to have been the largest 

 ever grown in this corntry. The estimate for 

 1866 is 271,712,695 bushels, an increase of a 

 little more than one hundred millions of bushels 

 since 1860. This increase is almost universal, 

 Wisconsin being the only Northern State re- 

 porting less than last year, and the yield of the 

 Southern States being nearly .or quite up to the 

 amount of 1860. This large aggregate doea 

 not include the crop in the Pacific States. 



