Table I. 



Area in desiatins* under 



Region, and Provinces Winter Spring 



wheat wheat 



I. Region of black soils: 



1. Central agricultural provinces (Voronesh, Kursk, Orel, 



Riazan, Tambov, Tula) 156,634 663,945 



2. Middle Volga (Kazan, Nizhny-Novgorod, Penza, Saratov, 



Simbirsk, Ufa) 6,658 1,644,659 



3. Low Volga (Astrakhan, Orenburg, Samara) 10,491 3,991,897 



4. Novorussia (Bessarabie, Cossacks of Don, Ekaterinoslav, 



Taurida, Cherson) 1,870,149 6,461,593 



5. South Western (Volyn, Kiev, Podolsk) 1,104,008 112,306 



6. Little Russia (Poltava, Charkov, Tchernigov) 207,913 1,275,624 



Total for Region 3,355,853 14,150,024 



Total Winter and Spring 17,505,877 



II. Region of other soils: 



1. Industrial provinces (Vladimir, Kaluga, Kostrome, Moscow, 



Tver, Yaroslav) . 1,417 31,569 



2. White Russia (Vitebsk, Minsk, Mohilev, Smolensk) 24,005 27,149 



3. Lithuania (Vilne, Grodno, Kovna) 77,993 16,316 



4. Provinces of Lakes (Novgorod, Olonetsk, Petrograd, Pskov) 4,072 1,744 



5. Baltic Sea (Curland, Livland, Estland) 31,070 6,040 



6. Provinces of Ural (Viatka, Perm) 16 621,438 



7. Northern (Archangel, Vologda) 1 16,586 



Total for Region 138,574 720,842 



Total Winter and Spring 859,416 



* 1 desiatin = 2.7 acres. 



III. Provinces of Vistula. (Warsaw, Kalish, Keltze, 

 Lomzha, Lublin, Petrokov, Plotsk,Radom, Suvalki, Sedlets) 459,292 2,817 



Total Winter and Spring 462,109 



IV. Caucasus 3,134,965 1,518,428 



V. Siberia 4,704 2,598,109 



VI. Middle Asia (Akmolinsk, Semipalatinsk, Semire- 

 tchensk, Turgai, Ural, Syr-Daria, Samarkand, 



Fergana, Trans-Caspien) 443,880 2,404,85S 



Total for the Empire 7,537,268 21,395,078 



Total Winter and Spring 28,932,346 



It can be seen from this table that the area under winter and spring wheat in 

 European Russia, with Poland (provinces of Vistula) but not including Caucasus, was 

 in 1912: 



18,827,402 desiatins— 50,833,985 acres; and in Asiatic Russia and Caucasus: 



10,104,944 desiatins = 27,283,349 acres. 



In the sixty-three governments (provinces) of European Russia 92.9 per cent, of 

 the total area (17,505,877 of 18,827,402 desiatins) under wheat cultivation is in the 

 region of black soils. 



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