i9i i.] Notes on Crop Prospects Abroad. 



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World's Wheat Crop. — According to estimates published in Beer- 

 bohm's Corn Trade List (August nth) and in Broomhall's Corn Trade 

 News (August 22nd), the wheat crop of the world is anticipated to be 

 very slightly below the output both of 19 10 and 1909. An estimate in 

 Dornbusch's Evening List (August 18th) puts the total at a very little 

 more than that of the last two years. 



The following table shows the estimated total production as given 

 in each of the above-named publications, with the corresponding figures 

 for 1910 and 1909 : — 





Becrbohm. 



DornbnscJi. 



Broomhall. 



Qrs. of 480 lb. 



Qrs. of Measure. 



Qrs. 



191 1 



438,000,000 



460,343,000 



427,450,000 



1910 



443,900,000 



458,518,000 



429,230,000 



1909 



439,420,000 



453,435 5 ooo 



429,220,000 



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

 in their report on the Hop Crop and Prices of 1911, dated August 22nd, 

 state that the long spell of dry weather experienced in most of the hop- 

 growing countries has altered to a great extent the fairly promising 

 prospects at the beginning of July, and owing to the general belief that 

 the year's output would be a very small one, there has been a rapid 

 rise in prices both for last year's and this year's hops. . Messrs. Barth 

 consider, however, that the year's world crop will not be a failure, and 

 that the total yield will correspond to about a weak medium crop ; also 

 that the production will be sufficient to meet the world's requirements, 

 and they are consequently of opinion that recent prices have been too 

 high. 



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

 Department of Agriculture gives the condition of crops at harvest as 

 follows : — Spring wheat, 567, compared with 63' 1 last year and a seven- 

 year average of 77*6; oats 64*5, against 83*3 last year and a ten-year 

 average of 79*5 ; barley, 65*5 against 69*8 last year and a ten-year 

 average of 83*0 (Times, September 9th, 191 1). 



Germany. — The Imperial Statistical Bureau gives the condition at 

 the beginning of September of oats as 3*0 and potatoes at 3*5 (3 = 

 average, 4= small). The September report on the Prussian crops 

 records a great deterioration of all crops, except oats. The latter are 

 now regarded as average, potatoes as a small crop, and sugar-beet, 

 clover, and lucerne as very poor. Apart from sugar-beet, potatoes 

 seemed to have suffered most from the August drought; they will yield 

 but little on light soils, but heavy lands may give an average crop ; the 

 conditions appear very similar in the east and west of Prussia. 



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