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Harvest and Crop Reports. 



export trade in wheat from India shows great fluctuations from 

 year to year. Only in one year of the last seven has there 

 been a trade approximating to one million tons. The exporta- 

 tion in 1901-2 amounted to 366,091 tons, as compared with 

 the remarkably small total of 2,500 tons returned for 1 900-1. 



The following Table shows the estimated acreage and yield of 

 wheat in the various provinces : — 



Province. 



Area. 



Production. 



1901-02. 



1900-01. 



1901-02. 



1900-01. 





Acres. 



Acres. 



Tons. 



Tons. I 



Punjab... 



North-West Frontier 



Province 

 United Provinces of 



A ra and Oudh 

 Bengal... 

 Central Provinces 

 Bomba 

 Sind 



Berar ... 

 Nizam's Territory 

 Rajputana («■)... 

 Central India {a) 

 Mysore 



7,227,100 



796,500 



6,479,720 

 1,388,200 

 2,590,209 

 i,333>8i6 

 495^13 

 280,085 

 712,157 

 535,241 

 1,451,633 

 3,7H 



7,717,800 



6,790,440 

 1,498,700 

 2,055,736 

 i,433,8io 

 479,487 

 243,554 

 748,163 

 713,290 

 1,238,317 

 2,556 



1,846,300 



159,279 



2,401,940 

 391,000 



561,574 

 168,971 

 102,132 

 6,180 

 13,184 

 103,835 



254,331 

 256 



2,636,700 



2,384,605 

 472,600 

 440,909 

 298,479 

 123,160 



5>o93 

 15,068 

 170,682 

 218,224 

 197 





23,293,988 



(&) 



22,921,853 



6,008,982 



(b) 

 6,765,717 



(a) Incomplete, (b) Excluding North-West Frontier Province. 



Crops in the United States. 



Preliminary returns as to the wheat crop of the United States 

 indicate that there was a reduction of about 2,511,000 acres, 

 or 12*8 per cent., in the area sown with spring wheat, as compared 

 with last year's sowings. Of winter wheat the yield is put at 

 about 380,000,000 bushels, or 13*8 bushels per acre. 



The Times of the nth inst. quotes the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture's September report to the effect that the 

 condition of maize has deteriorated a little during August, 

 though it is better than the average. The acreage under this 

 crop was estimated in an earlier return to be about 3,520,000 



