Harvest and Crop Reports. 



Crops in France. 



An official report on the condition of the French crops on 

 the 15th May, 1902, was published in the Journal Officiel of 

 the 7th of that month. 



The appearance of winter wheat crops was stated to be 

 " very good " in four departments, " good" in fifty-five, " fairly 

 good " in twenty-four, " passable " in three departments, and 

 " indifferent " in one. Spring wheat had been sown in forty- 

 eight departments only. The condition was reported " very 

 good" in three cases, "good " in thirty-two, "fairly good" 

 in ten, and " passable " in three departments. 



The departmental reports on the winter and spring oats are 

 as follow : " Very good " in one and four departments respec- 

 tively ; " good" in forty-one and forty-eight ; " fairly good " 

 in twenty-two and twenty-four ; and less favourable in one 

 and four departments. No winter oats were sown in twenty- 

 two, and no spring oats in thirteen departments. The spring 

 oat crop was not " up " on May 1 5th in one department. 



The condition of winter barley was estimated to be " good " 

 or " very good " in thirty-eight departments and " fairly 

 good " in twenty. The crop was not grown in twenty-nine 

 departments. 



The corresponding figures for the spring barley crop are 

 forty-five and twenty-eight departments, and thirteen where 

 the crop was not grown. In one department it was not 

 " up." 



The estimated total acreage sown with wheat is 16,789,000 

 acres. 



Harvest and Live Stock of New South Wales. 



The Government Statistician of New South Wales has 

 recently published Preliminary Tables of the Agricultural and 

 Live Stock Statistics of the Colony for the year ended 

 March, 1902. From these figures the following table has 

 been compiled, showing the area and production of the 

 principal crops and the number of live stock in the past 



