i9io.] 



Notes on Crop 



Prospects Abroad. 



685 



The International Agricultural Institute at Rome, in its Bulletin 

 of Agricultural Statistics issued on October 20th last, gives particulars 



of the wheat, barley, rye, and oat crops for 

 Notes on Crop 1910 in the principal countries of the Northern 



Prospects Abroad. Hemisphere. The results may be modified to 



some extent when the final returns have been 

 received, but the figures available up to the present, as will be seen 

 from the tables given below, show that the area under wheat in 

 twenty countries in the Northern Hemisphere in 19 10 was larger by 6'2 

 per cent, than that of last year, while the production was greater by 

 3*9 per cent. The area under rye decreased in fourteen countries by 

 o'6 per cent., but the crop was larger by 3*3 per cent. The area under 

 barley and oats increased by 27 and 2'6 per cent, respectively, but while 

 the barley crop was larger by 1*4 per cent., that of oats decreased by 

 37 per cent. (The figures for barley refer to fifteen countries and those 

 for oats to fourteen countries.) The returns, as regards wheat, repre- 

 sent probably some seven-eighths of the total production in the Northern 

 Hemisphere, but in the case of the other crops, returns are still required 

 from several important countries, and when these are received they 

 may possibly affect the percentages given above. So far as the informa- 

 tion available at the time of publication of this Bulletin showed, it ap- 

 peared that the production of the two principal food-grains, viz., wheat 

 and rye, would be somewhat greater than that of last year. The 

 variation in the yield of barley was unimportant, but there was a 

 decline in the oat crop. 



Area and Production in 1910 as compared with 1909. 



Country. 



Wheat. 



Rye. 



Barley. 



Oats. 



Area. 



Produc- 

 tion. 



Area. 



Produc- 

 tion. 



Area. 



Produc- 

 tion. 



Area. 



Produc- 

 tion. 





Per cent. 



Per cent. 



Per cent. 



Per cent. 



Per cent. 



Per cent. 



Per cent. 



Per cent 



Prussia 



108 '2 



io5'5 



1 00 -8 



96 O 



94-6 



80-9 



99*3 



87-4 



Bulgaria 



105-9 



153-2 



III7 



169-7 



101*9 



169*0 



99-2 



141 -o 



Denmark 





1067 



99-6 



99-2 



99 '7 



91-5 



99'2 



90-3 



Spain ... 



101-4 



94'9 



99 '9 



91 '2 



97-8 



102-9 



IC4-I 



89-6 



France 



98-9 



73-5 



101 0 



86-i 











Great Britain ... 



99 2 



9i-3 







1039 



93-6 



1 01 ?3 



95-8 



Hungary 



108 -6 



157-6 



106-1 



ii6-8 



102-5 



87-4 



101 6 



84-1 



Italy 



101 -o 



80-7 



100 0 



108 • 1 



99-1 



86-6 



ICO'O 



65-8 



Luxemburg . . , 



I lO'O 



I22'5 



997 



106 -4 











Netherlands ... 



104-1 



IOVI 



98-6 



84-1 



99*3 



101 9 



987 



96 'i 



Roumania 



115-3 



l88- 3 



127-3 



248-1 



100 0 



143 4 



92-2 



109-5 



Russia in 

















Europe ... 



93'2 



II5-4 



98-0 



106-2 



92-3 



1 12 6 



100 2 



95-3 



Sweden 



97*3 



9D-3 



965 



91-4 











Switzerland ... 



1000 



95 8 



ico-o 



98-6 



IOO'O 



97-1 







Canada 



119-9 



73-6 



92-1 



95-3 



9S-3 



71 1 



106-0 



8o-i 



United States . 



104-4 



93-8 





100-7 



92-9 



103-5 



106-5 



British India ... 



106-9 



1 26-0 















Japan 



Russia in Asia . 



1 00 -6 



99 'I 















212-9 



I33-3 



1 181 



125-2 



6c 2 -o 



131-6 



121 -o 



i3i-3 



Tunis ... 



89-0 



857 







88-i 



72-5 



103-3 



987 



Average 



106-2 



103-9 



99-4 



103-3 



102-7 



IOT'4 



102-6 



96-3 



