5io Notes on Crop Prospects Abroad, [sept., 



issued by the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture, and based upon the 

 reports of their Consular officials, agrees substantially with these figures 

 as regards the present year. 



The following table shows the total production as given in Beer- 

 bohm's Corn Trade List (August 12th) and in Dorribusch's Evening List 

 (August 19th), and as estimated by the Argentine Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture. The figures for previous years are added for comparison. 



Argentine Ministry 

 Beerbohm. Dornbusch. of Agriculture. 



Qrs. (480 lb.). Qrs. (measured). Qrs. (480 lb.). 



1910 ... 436,500,000 432,768,000 430,240,000 



1909 ... 455,520,000 452,356,000 397,650,000 



J 908 ... 399,065,000 398,145,000 



World's Hop Crop. — Messrs. John Barth and Son, of Nuremberg, in 

 their first report on the hop crop, dated August 22nd, state that the 

 plants have hitherto successfully resisted the unfavourable temperature, 

 and though the state of the plantations is in nearly all districts un- 

 equal, the good plantations are considerably in the majority. 



In Bavaria the condition is best in the Spalt district, but the outlook, 

 is also good in the Hallertau. The country and mountainous districts 

 of Bavaria promise a normal yield, and this is also the case in Wurtem- 

 berg, Baden, Alsace-Lorraine, and Prussia. The reports from Saaz, in 

 Bohemia, are especially promising. The yield in this district is expected 

 to be double as much as in 1909, while the other districts of Austria- 

 Hungary will also produce more than in 1909. In France and Belgium 

 a considerably higher yield than last year is expected, but Russia will 

 hardly reach last year's level. 



Messrs. Barth anticipate a proportionately small crop in England, 

 but the production in the United States is likely to exceed that of last 

 year. 



Although the crop is largely dependent upon the weather, at the end 

 of August and the beginning of September it is approximately estimated 

 at a normal one of about 1,500,000 cwt. to 1,700,000 cwt. The English 

 yield is put at 300,000 to 340,000 cwt., and that of the United States 

 at 400,000 to 450,000 cwt. 



The consumption of hops amounts to about 1,660,000 cwt., and 

 the stocks in the hands of Continental brewers are stated to be much 

 reduced. 



Canada. — The Bulletin issued by the Canadian Census and Statistics 

 Office, dated August 12th, states that in the Eastern Provinces the 

 growth of field crops has been uniformly good throughout July, but 

 in extensive tracts of the North-West drought has prevailed. The average 

 condition of spring wheat for the whole of Canada is 77, compared with 

 84*57 ° m I 9°9» while in the three North-West Provinces where it is 

 principally grown the condition is 62. Winter wheat is put at 84'63 

 compared with 76*53 in 1909, and the estimated yield at 18,724,000 

 bushels, or 26*47 bushels per acre. The average condition of oats is 

 79*57, compared with 87*78 last year. 



Germany. — The condition of crops in the middle of August was 

 reported by the Imperial Statistical Bureau to be as follows : — Winter 

 wheat, 2*5 ; spring wheat, 2*7 ; winter rye, 2*6 ; spring rye, 2*7 ; barley, 

 2*7; oats, 2*7; potatoes, 2*8 (ir=very good; 2 = good; 3 = medium 



