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and hot in summer. The mean annual temperature at Budapest varies 

 from 0.7 degrees C. in January to 20.4 degrees C. in July. In Hungary 

 75.1 per cent of the population is engaged jn agriculture, while in 

 Austria the percentage is 55. In Austria proper 34.45 per cent of the 

 land is arable. 



CORN PRODUCTION IN ASIA 



Outside of America and Europe the most extensive corn-growing 

 area in the world is in Asia, notably in Turkey, southern Asiatic Rus- 

 sia, British India, French Indo-China, the Philippines, China and 

 Japan. Although the crop in none of these countries attains the pro- 

 portions of a principal one, there are localities in most of them where 

 its culture is of great local importance. 



In Asiatic Turkey an official report indicated over 900,000 acres 

 under cultivation in 1911, and in 1911 a small area of 150,000 acres was 

 returned in Asiatic Russia — in Ferghana, Samarkand and Syr-Daria. 



In British India, where in some districts food made from corn is 

 the chief article of native diet, over six million acres are planted yearly. 



An annual area of over one million acres is grown in the Philip- 

 pines and upward of 130,000 acres in Japan. 



Statistical record of the area and yield in China and Indo-China is 

 non-existant. It is known, however, that the grain is grown to a con- 

 siderable extent in parts of China, and in the northern part its value as 

 a human and animal food is supplemented by the general use of the 

 stalks as fuel. In the French colony, Indo-China, the growing popu- 

 larity of the culture is indicated by the fact that the annual imports 

 into the mother country from this possession increased from 571,000 

 to 3,710,000 bushels during the period 1906 to 1911. 



CORN PRODUCTION IN AFRICA 



Corn is grown quite generally on the Continent of Africa, but, ex- 

 cepting that it is an important article of food among the native tribes 

 of the central colonies, definite information respecting the extent of its 

 culture is limited to the countries along the Mediterranean and to the 

 Union of South Africa. 



In Egypt, the principal producing country, the area (about 1,900,- 

 000 acres) is more extensive than that of cotton ; the grain constitutes 

 the chief food of the Egyptian fellah and enters almost wholly into 

 domestic consumption. 



