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quarters, against 17,500,000 quarters last year. (Beerbohm's Evening 

 Corn Trade List, September 29th, 191 1.) 



Canada. — From a bulletin compiled by the Census and Statistics 

 Office at Ottawa, dated September 14th, the average yield of spring 

 wheat is estimated at 19' 14 bush, per acre in the Dominion, which 

 is seven bushels more than last year. The production of fall wheat, 

 which is' grown almost wholly in Ontario and Alberta, was expected 

 to be 17,706,000 bush. The total wheat yield of the country is 

 estimated to be 204,634,000 bush., or 82 million bushels more than 

 the estimate at the same date last year. The yield per acre is 19*50 

 bush. For the Dominion the yield of oats is given as 368,100,000 bush., 

 which is 84,900,000 bush, more than last year's estimate at the same 

 date, and the average of 36 bush, per acre exceeds last year's 

 average by 7 bush. The average for barley is also higher than last 

 year by 7 bush, per ^icre, and the total yield is estimated at 51,559,000 

 bush., as against 40 million bush, in 1910. (Dornbusch, September 

 27th, 1911.) 



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

 Agriculture estimates the yield of all wheat as 655,189,000 bush.-, as 

 compared with 695,443,000 bush, in 1910 and 737,189,000 bush, in 

 1909; of the 191 1 crop, 454,821,000 bush, are winter wheat and 

 200,367,000 bush, spring wheat, as compared with 464,044,000 bush, 

 and 231,399,000 bush, respectively in 1910. The yield of oats is given 

 as 874,200,000 bush., as compared with 1,126,765 bush, in 1910 and 

 1,007,353,000 bush, in 1909. The yield of maize is given as 

 2,759,340,000 bush., as compared with 3,125,713,000 bush, in 1910 and 

 2,767,316,000 bush, in 1909. The yield of barley is given as 20*7 bush, 

 per acre in 1911, 22*4 bush, last year, and 24*3 bush, in 1909; the 

 quality is returned at 84*9 per cent., as against 69*8 last year. (Corn 

 Trade News, October 9th, 191 1.) 



France. — The yield of barley in 191 1 is returned as 5,913,000 qr., as 

 compared with 5,267,000 qr. in 19 10, and of oats as 36,880,000 qr., as 

 compared with 35,224,000 qr. last year. (Journal Officiel, October 1st, 

 1911.) 



Beet-root Crop in Russia. — H.M. Ambassador at St. Petersburg 

 states, on the 6th ult., that the total area under sugar-beet cultivation 

 was about 1,957,000 acres, an increase of nearly 290,000 acres over 

 last year. Some 151,000 acres had been affected by adverse weather 

 conditions, damage by insects, and failure from bad seed. It was 

 estimated in the middle of July that of the total acreage planted 

 1,009,000 acres, or about 51 per cent., were in good condition, and 

 698,000 acres, or 36 per cent., were in fair condition, the rest, 13 per 

 cent., being in an unsatisfactory or bad state. A later dispatch states 

 that the yield will be nearly 13 million tons, as against 10,850,000 tons 

 last year. 



Hops. — From reports received through the Foreign Office, it appears 

 that the yield of hops in Bavaria is much smaller than last year, and 

 is estimated to be about 94,000 cwt., as compared with 218,000 cvvt. 

 in 19 10, the average yield being only about 2^ cwt. per acre, 

 against nearly 5 cwt. last year. The quality is said to be 

 excellent. In Bohemia it is estimated that the production will be 



