I909-] Notes on Crop Prospects Abroad. 



from diseases and insect attacks. On the whole, however, a satisfac- 

 tory yield is anticipated, the average for the country being put at 2> 

 (2 = good, 3 — medium or averag~e). 



Hungary.- — According to the report of the Ministry of Agriculture 

 on the crops in the middle of October the greater part of the maize 

 crop had already been secured, and the part still standing had been 

 benefited by the favourable weather. The yield is usually good or 

 moderate. The cultivated area this year was 6,106,000 acres, and the 

 yield is estimated at 83,083,000 cwt., against 73,027,000 cwt. last year. 

 The potato crop has for the most part realised the favourable expecta- 

 tions, and on an area of 1,448,000 acres amounts to 4,610,000 tons,, 

 against 3,734,000 tons in 1908. 



Roumania. — H.M. Consul at Bucharest (Mr. O. Wardrop) reports 

 that the Roumanian Ministry of Domains has published preliminary 

 statistics of the wheat and maize crops in 1909. The total wheat 

 harvest of Roumania amounted to about 55,000,000 bushels, as compared 

 with 53,120,000 bushels in 1908. The average for the last five years 

 was 71,321,000 bushels, but this was due to the extraordinarily good 

 crops of 1905 and 1906. Thus this year's crop has been about a 

 normal one, and the quality is said to be exceptionally good, weighing 

 64 lb. per bushel. The maize harvest yielded about 12J bushels per 

 acre, and the total crop was about 67,000,000 bushels, which is just 

 about the average of the last five years, and only 11,000,000 bushels less 

 than last year. (Board of Trade Journal, October 21st, 1909.) 



Servia. — The " Nachrichten fur Handel und Industrie" (Berlin) of 

 October 6th, quoting from a report by the German Consulate at 

 Belgrade, states that it is estimated that in Servia about 939,000 acres 

 were this season sown with wheat, and 1,408,000 acres with maize. 

 The average yield is stated to be 16 to 18 bushels per acre of wheat 

 and rye, and 23 to 27 bushels of oats. (Board of Trade Journal, 

 October 21st, 1909.) 



Canada. — The Census and Statistics Monthly for October estimates 

 the average quality of the field crops at the end of September as 

 follows: — Spring wheat, 82*58 ; oats, 83*97; barley, 81*22; rye, 81*29; 

 and potatoes, 90*37. The quality is uniformly higher than at the same 

 date last year. 



Russia. — The Ministry of Agriculture has issued an estimate of the 

 yield of the principal crops in the sixty Governments of European 

 Russia as follows :• — Wheat, 70,200,000 qrs. ; rye, 101,000,000 qrs. ; 

 barley, 46,000,000 qrs.; and oats, 108,100,000 qrs. These figures may 

 be compared with those published by the Central Statistical Committee 

 in September as representing the probable yield in seventy-two Govern- 

 ments (i.e., including the Caucasus and Siberia), viz. : wheat, 

 73)35o,ooo qrs. ; rye, 85,600,000 qrs. ; barley, 43,550,000 qrs. ; and oats, 

 96,750,000 qrs. (Dornbusch, October 22nd, 1909.) 



Holland.— The British Consul at Rotterdam (Mr. Henry Turing) 

 reports that, according to the review of the harvest of 1909 issued by the 

 Department of Agriculture, the crop of wheat was only moderate, and 

 quality generally bad ; rye was good in quantity but inferior in quality ; 

 barley was very good to fairly good, but the colour is reported to be 

 ibad; oats suffered from the unfavourable weather more than the other 



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