1907.] 



Crop Prospects Abroad. 



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France. — The Report of the Minister of Agriculture on the approximate yield of 

 the barley and oats crops, which appeared in the Journal Officiel, 16th October, 1907, 

 gives the area of barley sown in the present year as 1,774,000 acres against 1,752,000 

 acres in 1906, and the yield as 5,463,000 qrs. against 4,426,000 qrs. The area sown 

 with oats is 9,542,000 acres, as compared with 9,522,000 acres last year, and the 

 yield 38,050,000 qrs. as against 31,125,000 qrs. 



Russia. — According to an extract from the Commercial and Industrial Gazette oj 

 St. Petersburg forwarded to the Foreign Office by Mr. Ernest Scott (12th October, 1907), 

 the winter wheat crops of 1907 in the seventy-two governments of Russia amounted to 

 3,825,000 tons compared with 6,391.000 tons in 1906. The spring wheat crop is 

 estimated at 8,885,000 tons against 7,392,000 tons in 1906. The total produce is 

 12,710,000 tons in 1907, compared with 15,745,000 tons during the preceding five 

 years. 



Roumania. — The British Consul at Bucharest has forwarded the following official 

 statistics of the harvests of Roumania in 1907 : — ■ 





Area. 



Production. 





1907. 



1906. 



1907. 



1906. 





Acres. 



Acres. 



Quarters. 



Quarters. 



Wheat 



4,234,363 



4,996,422 



5,116,480 



13,793,487 



Rye ... 



362,247 



454,304 



309,357 



1,087,666 



Barley 



1,258,941 



1,379,989 



2,430,264 



4,062,827 j 



Oats 



870,596 



943,328 



2,161,271 



3,169,542 | 



The yield of wheat is little more than half the average of the preceding five years, 

 while that of rye is only about one-third of the average . Barley and oats are each 

 about 20 per cent, below the five year average. 



Argentina. — According to Dornbusch (25th October, 1907), the Minister of 

 Agriculture has issued his preliminary estimate of the new crops (1907-8), as 

 compared with last year (1906-7) : wheat area, 14,291,000 acres against 14,059,000 

 acres ; yield 4,920,000 tons against 4,245,000 tons. Oats area, 553,000 acres against 

 395,000 acres ; yield 460,000 tons. 



United States. — The Crop Reporting Board of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, stated that the condition of the maize crop on 1st October was 

 78*0 as compared with 90*1 on the same date in 1906. The preliminary estimate 

 of the yield per acre of spring wheat is 13*1 bushels per acre, and the total yield 

 at 216,067,000 bushels. The yield of winter wheat has already been calculated at 

 409,500,000 bushels, so that' the official figure for the total wheat yield of 1907 is 

 625,567,000 bushels compared with 735,261,000 bushels in 1906. The preliminary 

 returns indicate an oats crop of about 741,521,000 bushels or an average of 23*5 

 bushels per acre as compared with 31*2 bushels in 1906. The average quality is 

 77 'o. Barley is estimated to yield 23*9 bushels per acre, and amount to 147,192,000 

 bushels. The production of oats in 1906, was 964,905,000 bushels, and of barley 

 178,916,000 bushels. 



The preliminary returns of the production of maize published on 9th November 

 gave a total yield of 2,553,732,000 bushels, or an average of 26 bushels per acre as 

 compared with an average of 30*2 bushels in 1906. The yield is thus about 

 400,000,000 bushels less than last year. The general average of quality is 82*8 per 

 cent, as compared with 89*9 per cent, in 1906. The total yield of potatoes is 

 estimated at 292,427,000 bushels against 308,038,000 bushels in 1906. 



