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Alberta, and British Columbia, but were backward in the Maritime 

 Provinces. (Census and Statistics Monthly, May, 191 1.) 



Maize Crop of South Africa. — The following estimate of the maize 

 crop this year has been received from the South African Trades Com- 

 missioner in London : — 





Actual Yield, 

 1910. 



Estimated Yield, 

 1911. 



Transvaal Province 

 Orange Free State Province 

 Natal Province 



Quarters. 



1,354,166 

 b4i,666 

 624,999 



Quarters. 



1,041,666 

 312,500 

 520,833 



2,620,831 1,874,999 



The falling off in the yield is due to the severe drought in these 

 Provinces this season. The maize crop in the Cape Province has been 

 normal, but the quantity produced there is as a rule consumed locally, 

 and will, therefore, not affect the export trade. There is thus likely 

 to be little, if any, maize available for export this year from the Union. 

 (Board of Trade Journal, June 1st, 191 1.) 



Spain. — H.M. Consul at Seville (Mr. Arthur Keyser), in a dispatch 

 dated May 26th, states that the corn crop is expected to yield a heavy 

 harvest, the appearance of most of the fields of growing corn being 

 unusually fine. Recent rains have caused pasture to be plentiful, and 

 the sale of stock at all country fairs, now taking place weekly, is far 

 beyond the average. A time of general prosperity is anticipated. 



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

 Agriculture estimates the condition of winter wheat on June 1st as 

 80*4, compared with 8o'o on June 1st, 1910, 8o'7 on June 1st, 1909, and 

 8i*6, the average of the past ten years. Preliminary returns of spring 

 wheat make the area sown 20,757,000 acres, or an increase of 4*9 per 

 cent, over last year's area. The average condition of spring wheat on 

 June 1st was 94*6, compared with 92*8 on June 1st, 1910, 95*2 on the 

 same date of 1909, and a ten year average of 93'6. The area under 

 oats shows a decrease of o'i per cent., compared with the acreage in 

 1910, the condition on June 1st being 85*7, against 91*0 on June 1st, 

 1910. The acreage under barley is about 3 per cent, smaller than 

 that of last year; the condition on June 1st was 90*2, against 89*6 last 

 year. (Dornbusch, June 8th, 191 1.) 



Argentina. — A dispatch dated May 4th, from H.M. Charge d 'Affaires 

 at Buenos Aires, states that the drought which prevailed during March 

 was broken early in April by very heavy storms, these extending to the 

 region round .Bahia Blanca, which had suffered most severely from the 

 drought. The rain has come too late in the year, however, to benefit 

 pasture land. The mortality in live stock owing to the drought is 

 likely to be felt for some time to come. The soil has been softened 

 sufficiently to allow ploughing, but, for want of grass, horses will be 

 too weak to plough the full extent, and a reduced harvest among the 

 smaller cultivators will be the result. Agricultural prosoects generally, 

 however, have risen considerably since the rain. 



