1905.] Notes on Foreign Crop Prospects. 



419 



is a general agreement to the fact that Western Canada has 

 never had a better crop than the present one. The Dominion 

 Government Grain Commissioner reports that there never has 

 been in the history of Canada a crop of finer and more uniform 

 quality, and that as much as 80 per cent, of it will grade No. 1 

 Northern. 



United States. — The October Crop Report published by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, as reported in The 

 Times, shows that the average condition of maize on 1st October 

 was 89*2, as compared with 83-9 on the same date in 1904, and 

 8o - 8 in 1903. The preliminary estimate of the yield per acre of 

 spring wheat is 147 bushels, as against 127 bushels in 1904, 

 and 14*4 bushels in the two preceding years. With regard to 

 oats, the preliminary returns indicate a crop of about 939,332,000 

 bushels, or an average of 33*9 bushels per acre. Last year the 

 total yield was 894,596,000 bushels. The preliminary estimate 

 of the yield of barley is 267 bushels per acre as against 27*2 

 last year. 



The Board of Agriculture have issued the following prelimi- 

 nary statement showing the estimated total production of hops 



in the years 1905 and 1904, with the 

 Produce of Hops. y . /? \ , • 1 a 



acreage and estimated average yield per 



statute acre in each county of England in which hops were 

 grown. 





Estimated Total 

 Produce, 



Acreage Returned 

 on 5th June. 



Estimated Average 

 Yield per Acre. 



Counties, &c. 

















1905. 



1904. 



1905, 



1904. 



1905. 



1904. 





Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



fEast 

 | Mid 



Kent ...■{ Weald ... 



135^945 

 152,044 



155,481 



74,878 

 82,795 

 59,134 



10,417 

 10,464 

 9,774 



10,272 

 10,283 

 9,286 



13*05 

 14*53 

 I5'9i 



7*29 

 8-05 



6-37 



1 



I Total, Kent 



Hants 



Hereford 



Salop 



Surrey ... 

 Sussex ... 



Worcester 



Other Counties* 



443>47o 

 30,207 

 88,802 

 1,626 

 10,248 

 69,059 

 51,961 

 57o 



216,807 



9,137 

 14,101 

 2S0 



2,515 

 27,726 



n,736 

 28 



30,655 

 1,978 

 6,851 



135 

 843 

 4,647 

 3,807 

 5i 



29,841 

 1,900 

 6,767 

 140 

 877 

 4,474 

 3,752 

 48 



14*47 

 15*27 

 12-96 

 12-04 



I2'l6 



14-86 



13*65 

 ii-iS 



7.27 

 4'8i 

 2-08 



2 - 00 ' 

 2-87 



6-20 



3*i3 

 0-58 



Total 



695,943 



282,330 



48,967 



47,799 



14-21 



5*9i 



Gloucester and Suffolk. 



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