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good crops have brought prosperity, of which 

 there is no better indication than the increased 

 profits of the railways. The expansion of manu- 

 factures is steadily progressing, and it would be, 

 therefore, unwise to look for any considerable 

 increase in wheat exports even with a continuance 

 of the present good seasons. 



RUSSIA 



If Russia's enormous acreage under rye and 

 wheat, the former almost entirely grown in 

 European Russia, be added to the acreage of 

 barley and oats, it will be realised how much 

 her total cereal acreage overtops any other nation. 

 Only in the case of maize docs she take an inferior 

 position. The returns of the last ten years show 

 an increase in wheat acreage in the early years 

 of the decade which has been sustained, a slight 

 fall in rye, and an increase in barley and oats. 



The production of wheat and rye, and the ex- 

 ports of these breadstuffs for the three years 

 1908-10, has been as follows, in quarters : 



Production : 



1908. 1909. 1910. 



Wheat 73,557,ooo 99,158,000 97,995,000 



Rye 92,176,000 105,421,000 102,097,000 



165,733,000 204,579,000 200,092,000 



