340 THE BOOK OF CORN 



It will be noted that in spite of the low rate of 

 yield each year since 1895, the table relating to Russia's 

 corn production shows a substantial enlargement in 

 the corn acreage, and that between 1895 and 1900 the 

 breadth of the crop increased by forty-three per cent. 

 If the figures of production above quoted may be ac- 

 cepted as approximately correct, it appears that rather 

 more than half of the Russian crop is exported, as 

 shown in table in Appendix. 



The Crop of Roumania — As in the case of the 

 other Danubian countries, the acreage devoted to corn 

 has increased rapidly in recent years, in spite of the 

 low rate of yield usually secured. In the best years an 

 average of twenty bushels per acre is rarely reached, 

 and no crop of the country seems so subject to violent 

 fluctuations of return. In 1894 the average yield was a 

 trifle over twenty bushels per acre, while in 1895 * ne 

 opposite extreme was reached with a return of but lit- 

 tle more than five bushels. Despite this uncertainty, 

 the acreage devoted to corn is already increasing. It 

 was 4,184,372 acres in 1891 ; 4,560,230 in 1895, and 

 5,003,918 in 1900, an increase of nearly twenty per cent 

 between the beginning and the close of the decade. 

 The exports during the past decade may be noted in 

 table in Appendix. 



