1874.] 



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The quantities in the above table are obtained by reckoning 3.31 Cairo 

 ardebs to the bushel and 2^ pounds to the oke. The cwts. are as stated 

 in the original. 



In 1873 the products, feddans cultivated, average yield per feddan and 

 total yield were as follows : 



Pkoducts. 



No. OF Fed- Av. YIELD 



D'HS OUL-' PER FED- 

 TIVATED. i DAN. 



Cotton, cantars (1871) 



Sugar (Z) " 



Wheat, bushels 



Dourra, " 



Barley, Rice, {m) Maize and other grains, 



bushels 



Oats, bushels ' 1 ,200, 000 



Beans and lentils, bushels ] 1,070,000 



Dates, cantars i 25,000 



All other, iucludiog Mulberry trees, (n) 



Rose-trees, (o) poppies, etc ! 210,224 



Total 1 4,624,221 



Aggregate 



YIELD. 



1,977,242 

 6,000,000 

 7,998,750 

 4,500,000 



1,-001,250 



1,500,000 



2,140,000 



20,000,000 



From the above table and the comparative statistics of the exports of 

 cotton and sugar from Egypt, it appears that at the present time the gov- 

 ernment is encouraging the production of these articles in the place of 

 wheat, and since the area of cultivation is limited, it follows that the pro- 

 duct of the latter will be less and less every year. But taking the wheat 

 product at its utmost, what does it amoxintto? A product of 8,000,000 

 bushels a year, (p) of which 5,000,000 bushels are exported, chiefly to 

 England. In point of fact, however, there have been but six years dur- 

 ing the past twenty, when the exports have amounted to as much as 

 5,000,000 bushels per annum, and there will probably never be another— 

 at least in our days. These years were 1854, 1855, 1856, 1858, 1862 and 

 1868. In 1864, 1865, 1866 and 1870, there were no exports, on account 

 of famine. In fact, Egypt imported wheat in those years. Last year, 

 1873, the exports were only 2^ million bushels. 



(I). This statement of the yield of sugar must be accepted with caution. It is given 

 on the authority of the American consul, but the same authority says that the total 

 product of 1872 was but 1,500,000 cantars. The production of this article is being pushed 

 by the Khedive and more land devoted to it each succeeding year. There are 17 fac- 

 'tories in Upper Egypt, capable of turning out 2,350,000 cantars of sugar per annum, and 

 5 others were building in 1873, with an aggregate capacity of 900,000 cantars. 



(m). Rice was formerly the principal grain exported from Egypt, but its cultivation 

 began to decline some 50 years ago. 



(n). There were 10,000 feddans in Mulberry trees in 1837, with 300 trees to the feddan. 



(o). Mainly in the Faioum. 



(p). It was about 7,500,000 bushels some ten or fifteen years previously. — Appleton's 

 Encyc. 



