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Notes on Crop Prospects Abroad. 



[JULY, 



cereals for wheat, barley, and oats are being effected under average 

 conditions. The period is quite normal and the weather conditions 

 are favourable. 



India. — The final general memorandum on the wheat crop of the 

 season 1910-11 gives the total area under the crop as 29,554,500 acres, 

 or 5'5 per cent, above the revised figure for 1909-10, and 9 per cent, 

 above the average of the preceding five years. The total outturn in 

 1910-11 is estimated at 9,900,800 tons, as against 9,590,600 tons in 

 1909-10, and an average of 7,868,200 tons during the preceding five 

 years. The wheat crop of 1910-11 is thus the largest on record. 

 (Indian Trade Journal, June 1st, 191 1.) 



United States. — H.M. Consul at Chicago states that according to 

 the United States Government report the total yield of spring wheat on 

 June 1st was estimated at 284,000,000 bushels, as compared with a 

 final yield of 231,000,000 bushels in 19 10. The estimated winter wheat 

 crop was 480,000,000 bushels, as compared with a final yield in 19 10 

 of 464,000,000 bushels. The total wheat crop estimate on June 1st 

 was thus 764,000,000 bushels, as against 695,000,000 bushels in 19 10, 

 being the largest yet recorded. 



According to Dornbusch of July ioth, 191 1, the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture estimates the condition of winter wheat on 

 July 1st at 76*8, compared with 81*5 on July 1st, 1910, and a ten-year 

 average of 8i"4. The condition of spring wheat is estimated at 73*8 on 

 July 1st, compared with 6i'6 on July 1st, 19 10, and a ten-year average 

 of 87*8. Oats and barley are put at 68'8 and 72*1 respectively, as 

 against 82*2 and 73*7 last year, and a ten-year average of 86*3 and 

 87-9. 



Hungary. — On June 27th the Ministry of Agriculture estimated the 

 area under wheat and rye to be below, and that of barley and oats to 

 be slightly above, the area harvested in 19 10. The wheat and rye crops 

 were estimated at 87,223,000 cwt. and 24,836,000 cwt., compared with 

 90,886,000 cwt. and 26,161,000 cwt. in 1910. The development of barley 

 and oats is very favourable, and potatoes promise well, the earlier sorts 

 being already harvested. 



Austria. — The Ministry of Agriculture gives the condition of crops 

 in the middle of June as follows: — Wheat, 2*5; rye, 2*7; barley, 2*4; 

 oats, 2*5; maize, 2*6; and potatoes, 2*3 (2 = above average, 3=average). 

 Wheat and rye were not in so good a condition as on the same date 

 in 19 10, while barley and oats were better than last year. Wheat, 

 although developing well, has in general suffered badly from rust. 

 Potatoes in general were healthy, and where planted early were already 

 in blossom. 



Sugar-Beet in Russia. — A dispatch from H.M. Ambassador at St. 

 Petersburg, dated June 1st, reports that the area under sugar-beet is 

 estimated on the authority of sugar factories interested at 1,943,000 

 acres, which represents an increase of 271,000 acres, or 16*4 per cent, 

 over last year's area. In view, however, of the lateness of spring 

 this year, field operations have been much retarded, and on May 3rd 

 only 1,148,000 acres, or 59 per cent, of the total estimated area had been 

 sown, as against 76 per cent, on the same date last year. It is feared, 



