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Notes on Crop Prospects Abroad. [nov., 



Seeds are generally very thin and patchy; in isolated instances a 

 thick growth is mentioned, but this is decidedly exceptional. Many 

 acres have been resown or ploughed up. Recent rains have effected 

 considerable improvement. 



Live stock are still reported, generally, to be in poor condition, and 

 they seem to have made little progress during the month. Many 

 reports state that fewer cattle are being fattened for market this 

 season, largely on account of the anticipated shortage of keep during 

 the winter, hay, straw, and roots all being deficient. The official 

 returns of the hay crop show that clover and rotation grasses have 

 yielded only 25' 18 cwt. per acre throughout Great Britain as a whole, 

 or £ ton below the average, while the deficiency in hay from per- 

 manent grass is over 5^ cwt., the yield per acre being only 18*27 cwt - 

 Here also the Scottish returns are not so low as the English, being 

 only 2$ to 3 cwt. below the average. The total production of hay in 

 Great Britain from both seeds and meadow amounts to 7,183,240 tons, 

 which is 2,333,000 tons less than that of 1910, and about 20 per cent, 

 below the average of the last ten years. 



Notes on 

 Crop Prospects 

 Abroad. 



The Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics for October, 191 1, issued by 

 the International Institute of Agriculture, shows the production of the 

 cereal crops this year from information received 

 up to October 20th. The countries for which 

 it is possible to give an approximate estimate 

 of the production are as follows : — In Europe : 

 Prussia, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Ireland, 

 Hungary (including Croatia and Slavonia), Italy, Luxemburg, Nether- 

 lands, Roumania, Russia in Europe (63 governments), Switzerland; in 

 America : Canada and United States ; in Asia : India, Japan, Russia in 

 Asia (10 governments); in Africa: Algeria (Departments of Alger and 

 Oran), Egypt, Tunis. 



The principal additions which have been made to the tables are the 

 figures for barley and oats in France, and for wheat and barley in Egypt, 

 the latter country being included in the tables for the first time. The 

 data for Canada have undergone important changes in accordance with j 

 the results of the recent census, and are referred to below. 



Wheat. — The production of wheat in Canada is now estimated to be j 

 108,718,000 cwt., a reduction of 877,000 cwt. on the previous estimate. 

 The total production for all the countries included this month is j 

 1,648,449,000 cwt., as compared with 1,642,968,000 cwt. in 1910, or an 

 excess of 03 per cent. ; while the total area exceeds that of last year 

 by 3'3 per cent. 



Rye. — The total production of rye in all the countries specified 

 (excluding Great Britain, India, Japan, Algeria, Egypt, and Tunis) is 

 683,412,000 cwt., as compared with 708,657,000 cwt. last year, or a 

 decrease of 3*6 per cent. The area planted is greater than that of 1910 

 by 2 per cent. 



Barley. — The revised figures for Canada now place the yield as 

 18,671,000 cwt., a reduction of 3,419,000 cwt. on the preceding estimate 

 The total production in all the countries named above, with the exception 

 of India, is estimated to be 506,717,000 cwt., as against 509,827,000 cwt. 



