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REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 



[March 1895. 



The Wheat Crop in India. 



The first general memorandum on the wheat crop for the 

 season 1894-95, dated Calcutta, 28th December 1894, has been 

 received from the Department of Revenue and Agriculture of 

 the Government of India. 



It is stated that the area sown in the Punjab is estimated at 

 some 7 • 9 millions of acres, or little more than 3 per cent, below 

 the very extensive area sown last year. In the North- Western 

 Provinces the autumn rainfall spoilt a considerable proportion 

 of the earlier sowings, and the area under wheat will probably 

 be some 8 per cent, below that recorded for last season. The 

 injurious effect of the monsoon has been felt also in the Central 

 Provinces nnd Berar, and to this has been added in the Central 

 Provinces the want of seed-grain entailed by the heavy losses 

 from rust in the crop of 1894. In Southern Bombay, where rain 

 has been unseasonable and insufficient, the sowings fell somewhat 

 short of those of last year, but in the North, where wheat has 

 largely replaced damaged cotton, the area is put at some 22 per 

 cent., and in Sind, where floods have been extensive, at as much 

 as 68 per cent., above the average. 



So far as can be judged the out-turn in the Punjab, Northern 

 Bombay, and Sind will be good, in Berar and the Central 

 Provinces fair to good, and in the North- Western Provinces and 

 Southern Bombay only fair. 



Russian Harvest of 1894. 



The Board of Agriciilture have received from the Ministry of 

 .Agriculture at St. Petersburg a copy of a report containing the 

 preliminary estimates of the 3 ield of cereals in the fi.fty govern- 

 ments of European Russia in 1894. The estimated out-turn of 

 the four chief grain crops in 1894 compared with the production 

 of 1893 may be shown as follows : — 



Crop. 



1894. 



1893. 



Wheat » . . . 

 Barle}- . . _ . 

 Oats . . - . 

 Rye - . . . 



Bushels. 

 273,815,407 

 180,887,192 

 666,394,610 

 795,879,180 



Bushels. 1 

 360,104,546 

 284,166,730 

 628,052,960 

 706,404,367 



Austrian Harvest of 1894. 



The Statistische Monatschrift has recently published the results 

 of the cereal harvest of Austria, as ascertained by the Imperial 

 Ministry of Agriculture at Vienna. The particulars of the 

 acreage and yield of the different grain crops are returned as 

 follows : — 



