OLIVES IN CKETK. 725 



other reasons, especially the absence of clear and regular accounts 

 among the native farmers, it is impossible to give a correct statement 

 of the yield, proceeds, and cost of cultivation per annum of an acre 

 planted iii olives. 



L'u iti-f all. The annual rain-fall in this district during the last four 

 years was: 



Inches. 



hi is*) 28.33 



In 1>HI 25.76 



In 1882 20.42 



In 1883... 1. - 29.55 



In the three years first mentioned the annual rain-fall was compara- 

 tively light, and it was only in 1883 that it reached the average of the 

 ten years from 1870 to 1879, inclusive. 



C. H. HEAP, 



Consul- General. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE GENERAL, 



Constantinople, April 10, 1884. 



CRETE. 



REPORT BY CONSUL-GENERAL HEAP, OF CONSTANTINOPLE. 

 [Republished from Consular Reports No. 41^.] 



The island of Crete (Candia) is the most important olive oil-produc- 

 ing district in Turkey. The olive harvest for the season 1883-'84, just 

 ended, is considered unusually small and of poor quality. It only aug- 

 mented by 742,500 gallons the stock of oil remaining from 1882-'83 in 

 the hands of merchants and with the cultivators. This result was fore- 

 seen in consequence of the exceptionally fine crop of 1882- 7 83, which 

 exceeded the expectation of the most hopeful growers. Never, in fact, 

 had Crete been known to produce so abundant a crop of olives or one 

 of such good quality. 



The following returns show the difference between the last and the 

 preceding crop: 



