776 Agricultural Labour in November. [dec, 



World's Wheat Crop. — Revised estimates of the world's wheat crop 

 were issued on December 2nd by Dornbusch's Evening List, and Beer- 

 bohm's Corn Trade List. The figures are as follows : — 



Dornbusch. Beerbohm. 



Thousands of Thousands of 



Qrs. Qrs. 



(measure). (of 480 lb.). 



1910 ... 453.741 459,ioo 



1909 ... 453>83i 459,320 



1908 ... 398,134 402,365 



1907 ... 388,808 398,975 



1906 ... 424,372 435,255 



United States. — The United States Crop Reporting Board estimates 

 the newly-seeded area of winter wheat at 34,485,000 acres, an increase 

 of 3 per cent, on the area sown in the autumn of 1909. The condition 

 of winter wheat on December 1st was 82'5, as compared with 95*8 

 in 1909, and 85*3 in 1908, and a ten-year average of 91*3. The area 

 sown with winter rye is estimated at 2,138,000 acres, or a decrease of 

 17,000 acres compared with 1909. The condition of winter rye on 

 December 1st was 92'6, compared with 94° 1 in 1909, 87*6 in 1908, and 

 a ten-year average of 93*5. (Dornbusch, December 7th.) 



Russia. — The Central Statistical Committee has published the fol- 

 lowing preliminary figures concerning the Russian grain and potato 

 harvests of 19 10 for the seventy-three Governments and Territories of 

 the Empire : — 



Production. 





Ayerage. 









1904-8. 



1909. 



1910. 





Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Winter rye 



• 19,529,000 



22,046,000 



21,284,000 



,, wheat . 



5,206,000 



5,523,000 



6,641,000 



Spring rye 



423,000 



305,000 



339,000 



, , wheat 



.. 10,246,000 



15,392,003 



14,071,000 



Barley 



7,424,000 



10, 117,000 



9,805,000 



Maize 



1,210,000 



995,000 



1,934,000 



Oats 



. 13,116,000 



16,312,000 



14,896,000 



Potatoes ... 



. 26,996,000 



31,835,000 



35,602,000 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have been furnished by the 

 Board of Trade with the following report, based on returns from 

 correspondents in different districts, on the 

 Agricultural Labour demand for agricultural labour in Novem- 

 in England ber : — 



during November. Outdoor employment was interrupted to 



some extent in most districts on account of 

 unfavourable weather, and in consequence day labourers and piece- 

 workers were generally in somewhat irregular employment. With the 

 exception of one or two districts in the Eastern Counties, there was a 

 plentiful supply of such men, and in a number of cases the supply 

 was more than equal to the demand, which was on the whole only 

 moderate. 



Northern Counties. — Day labourers in these counties were princi- 

 pally employed at getting up and storing the root crops, threshing and 

 hedge-trimming, but the amount of work offered was only moderate, 

 and there was a consequent surplus in the supply of labourers in the 



