1907.] Crop Prospects Abroad. 



cultural governments, and in the southern districts of the 

 governments of Riazan, Tula and Saratoff the winter sowings 

 are in good condition, in places very good, more especially 

 the chief grain of these regions, winter rye." 



H.M. Consul at Rostov-on-Don, writing on May 16, reports 

 that the prospects for the new crops in the south-east of Russia 

 are in general good. The area sown compares favourably 

 with that of 1906. 



India. — According to Dornbusch (May 31) the final official 

 returns of the yield of wheat in India show the crop of 1906-07 

 to be 8,500,000 tons, as against 8,560,000 tons last year and 

 7,582,000 tons in 1904-05. 



Germany. — The official report on the crops in the middle 

 of May describes the condition of winter wheat as 3, of spring 

 wheat as 2-5, winter rye 2-9, spring rye 2*4, barley 2-3, 

 and oats 2-4 (1 = very good, 2 = good, 3 - medium, 

 4 = small and 5 ^ very small). In many districts the area 

 under winter wheat, rye, spelt, clover and lucerne has had 

 to be ploughed up, and for the whole of Germany it is estimated 

 that 27*4 per cent, of the area sown with winter wheat has 

 had to be thus dealt with. The average condition of winter 

 wheat this year is reported as more unfavourable than at the 

 same date in any year since 190 1. The condition of the spring 

 sowings was, however, generally favourable. 



South-East Europe. — Unofficial reports on the wheat crops 

 of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Servia and Roumania are 

 generally unfavourable. 



United States. — According to the~United States Department 

 of Agriculture the area under winter wheat in cultivation on 

 May 1 was about 28,132,000 acres, as compared with 31,665,000 

 acres sown in the autumn. This is about 1,468,000) acres 

 less than the area harvested last year. The average condition 

 of the crop was 82-9, compared with 89-9 on April 1, 1907, 

 and with 90*9 on May 1, 1906, and 92-5 on May 1, 1905. 



