CONTINENT OF EUROPE. 

 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



REPORT BY CONSUL-GENERAL WEAVER. 



[Republished from Consular Reports No. 41$.] 



INTRODUCTION. 



Although the raisin industry, strictly speaking, does not exist in this 

 empire, and the production of figs, olives, oranges, and lemons is very 

 unimportant, yet it is thought that the grape and wine industry and the 

 commerce in tropical fruits may be of sufficient interest to the fruit- 

 growers of the United States to warrant the transmission of the follow- 

 ing items in regard thereto. 



The Austro-Hungarian Empire is situated between 42 10' and 51 5' 

 north latitude, and 9 10' and 26 15' longitude east from Greenwich. 

 Omitting, however, its irregularities, the empire lies mainly between the 

 forty-fifth and fiftieth degrees of north latitude and the twelfth and 

 twenty-sixth degrees of east longitude, having, therefore, a rectangu- 

 lar form of about 350 miles in breadth by 750 miles in length, compris- 

 ing an area of 261,272 square miles, with Bosnia and Herzegovina in- 

 cluded. The mean latitude, therefore, of Austria-Hungary corresponds 

 very closely to the northern boundary of the United States. 



The climate of this country, however, is much less rigorous, as is well 

 known, than that of the United States. The extremes of heat and cold 

 at Vienna, which is located at about the center of the Austro-Hungarian 

 Empire, were during the past thirty years 98 and 4 Fahrenheit, while 

 the average yearly temperature during the same period was 10 centi- 

 grade or 50 Fahrenheit. 



It may, consequently, be very confidently affirmed that in Austria- 

 Hungary the winters are not as cold nor are the summers as warm as in 

 the United States by probably from 8 to 10, notwithstanding its higher 

 latitude. The rain-fall during the last thirty years varied at the 186 

 stations for meteorological observations in Austria-Hungary from 43 to 

 242 centimeters per year, equivalent to 17 and 95 inches. 



These stations are grouped as follows : 41 in Hungary, 80 in the Al- 

 pine region and on the Adriatic coast, and 65 in Bohemia, Galicia, Mo- 

 ravia, and other interior provinces removed from the sea. The rain-fall 



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