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is only represented by a production of some nine million gallons of wine 

 in 1900, or a four-hundredth part of the whole. 



The Wobld's Pboduction of Win'e in 1900. 





Gallons 



Gallons 



. . .. _ 



France . 



1,482,000,000 





French possessions — 







Algeria, Tunis, and Corsica 



130,000,000 



* 





083,000,000 







ol7,000,000 





Portugal 



139,000,000 





Madeira, Azores, and Canary Islands . 



7,000,000 





Germany 



80,000,000 





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Austria and Hungary .... 



114,000,000 





Switzerland ...... 



3o,000,000 





Eoumania ...... 



1 92,000,000 





Bulgaria 



7o, 000,000 





Servia .... . . 



27,000,000 





Russia 



o3, 000,000 





Greece ...... 



20,000,000 





Turkey and Cyprus .... 



A r\ AAA AAA 



49,000,000 







700,000 









3,403,700,000 



United States 



32,000,000 





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Argentina 



41,000,000 





Chili ....... 



69,000,000 







49,000,000 











206,000,000 



British possessions — 







Australia ...... 



5,500,000 





Cape of Good Hope .... 



3,500,000 









9,000,000 



Total yield of the world 



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• • • • 



3,618,700,000 



Stupendous as are the figures regarding France, we must not assume 

 that either the area of wine culture or the limit of production has been 

 reached there, nor even that former records have been exceeded. Not 

 only is the planting of new areas proceeding apace, but the production of 

 the present plantings has increased by large percentages, owing to im- 

 proved cultivation and the measures taken to repair past misfortunes to 

 the wine-growing industry from oidium, mildew, and phylloxera. 



This greater care exercised in planting, and the experience acquired in 

 combating all the enemies to the well-being of the vine, promise not only 

 to conquer these insidious fungoid and insect pests, but to vastly increase 

 the proportional producti\'ity of the areas under vines. How much 

 greater, for instance, is the fecundity of the \ine since the steps taken to 

 regenerate the \ineyards which have been afiected by phylloxera will be 

 seen by a comparison of the annual yield per acre at the beginning and at the 

 close of the last quarter of the century just ended. In 1875, which, as is well 

 known, was a record year in France for quantity as well as quality, 6,250,000 

 acres (2,500,000 hectares) produced 1,840 million gallons (83,632,390 hecto- 

 litres) of wine, an exceptional average yield of 294 gallons per acre. Yet 

 in 1900 the continuous adaptation of scientific methods, which has been so 

 efficacious in eradicating the parasite, has also been the means of further 



