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REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 



[Dec. 1894. 



late seeding, smut, and damage by grasshoppers and^ other 

 insects, are mentioned as causes of injury in a few localities. 



It appears that the present season has been unfavourable to 

 the potato crop in the United States. In July, the condition 

 was 92-3. This fell to 74 in August and again to 62-4 in 

 September. A slight recovery, however, is reported to have 

 taken place in October, when the condition was put at 64-3, as 

 compared with 71'2 at the same period last year. The yield 

 per acre is shown in the November report of the Statistician as 

 62-3 bushels, making a total production of 170,577,400 bushels 

 from an area of 2,738,000 acres. In the previous year the total 

 yield was 183,034,203 bushels. 



Hay is stated to have yielded an average of 1*15 tons per 

 acre. The hay acreage has been estimated at 45,843,000 acres, 

 so that the total yield of this crop would appear from these 

 figures to have been about 52,719,450 tons, while in the previous 

 season it was 65,766,158 tons. 



The average condition of apples in November is reported to 

 have been 41 '7 as compared with 40*8 in the month of September. 

 The crop is likely to be a very poor one. 



The condition of peaches stood at 211 in September, a 

 decline of over one point from the previous month. On the 

 Atlantic coast, south of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, conditions 

 are said to have indicated a practical failure of the peach crop, 

 and the same may be said of the States lying in the Piedmont 

 region and of the Western States generally. 



In his September report, the Statistician states that the reports 

 as to the number of stock hogs for fattening showed, as a general 

 average for the entire country, a redaction of 10 per cent, as 

 compared with last year. 



Crops and Live Stock in Manitoba. 



The statistics of the estimated acreage devoted to the cultiva- 

 tion of the principal crops in Manitoba in 1894 were given in 

 detail in the first number of this Journal. Particulars of the 

 estimated yield of cereals, flax, and hay have since been pub- 

 lished in the August bulletin of the Department of Agriculture 

 and Immigration at Winnipeg. 



The estimated total production of wheat is 15,761,868 bushels 

 as compared with 15,615,923 bushels in 1893. Oats are calcu- 

 lated to have yielded a crop of 12,197,772 bushels, while the 

 yield of barley is estimated to have amounted to 2,182,520 

 bushels. In the previous season, the estimated production 

 of these two cereals was 9,823,935 bushels, and 2,547,652 

 bushels respectively. The yield of flax in 1894 is estimated to 

 have been 282,480 bushels. 



The hay crop, both prairie hay and cultivated grasses, is said 

 to have been light this season, owing to defi,cient rainfall. 



