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to be over average, while oats are slightly over average in all 

 divisions with the exception of the North and North-Western 

 division of England and the East of Scotland. Potatoes may be 

 reckoned as slightly over average, and the prospect for the root 

 crops is favourable ; mangolds generally promise better than 

 turnips. The hay crop is reported as deficient in the Eastern,. 

 North-Eastern, South-Eastern, and East Midland counties, while 

 the yield in the West Midland and South-Western counties will 

 barely reach an average. In the North and North-VVestern 

 counties, Wales, and Scotland, the crop is distinctly over average. 



Fruit has varied a good deal : apples are plentiful, except in 

 the North, but pears are very scarce, Bush fruits are mostly 

 average or better ; but stone fruit appears to be almost uni- 

 versally a failure. 



Hops are unmistakably the worst crop of the year, and the 

 yield generally will be very deficient. 



Generally speaking, prospects for the western half of the 

 country appear more promising than in the east. 



Summarising the reports, and representing an average crop by 

 100, the appearance of the crops in August indicates a yield for 

 Great Britain as a whole which may be represented by the 

 following percentages : — Wheat, 105 ; barley, 104 ; oats, 102 ; 

 potatoes, loi ; roots, 105 ; hay, 10 1. 



The World's Wheat Crop. — According to the estimate pub- 

 lished by the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture on August 31st, 

 the wheat crop of the world may be ex- 



Notes on pected to reach 949 million metric centners 

 Crop Prospects ^ n ./r 



Abroad. approxmiately 430 million quarters (of 



480 lb.) as against 426 million quarters in 



1905. The requirements of the wheat-importing countries are 



put at 152 million metric centners, and the surplus available for 



export from the different wheat-exporting countries at nearly 



174 million metric centners. 



On the same date a similar estimate was issued by Beerbohvis 



Evening Corn Trade List, which calculated the wheat crop of 



the world at 437,600,000 qrs. (of 480 lb), as compared with 



420,840,000 qrs. in 1905, and an average production of 407 



million quarters in the four years 1902 to 1905. 



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