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REPOHTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 



[March 1895. 



Harvest in Manitoba in 1894. 



The Board have received an official report on the actual yield 

 of the various kinds of grain, and the conditions prevalent 

 during the last harvest and fall in Manitoba. It appears that 

 favourable conditions obtained in the Province for the maturing 

 of tbe crops, with the result that, in all districts, actual yields 

 show a slight increase per acre of wheat over the crop estimates, 

 to which reference was made in the last number of this 

 Journal. 



The following are the official figures relating to the wheat 

 crop :— Area, 1,010,180 acres ; yield per acre, 17 bushels ; total 

 yield, 17,172,883 bushels, or about 1,400,000 bushels above the 

 estimate. 



Oats, on the other hand, show a slight decrease from the 

 estimate, the figures being as follows : — Area under oats, 

 413,686 acres ; average yield per acre, 28*8 bushels; total yield, 

 11,907,854 bushels, compared with 12,197,772 bushels in the 

 estimate. 



The production of barley v/as 2,981,716 bushels, against an 

 estimated yield of 2,182,520 bushels. 



Other crops yielded as follows Rye, 59,924 bushels ; flax, 

 366,000 bushels; peas, 18,484 bushels; potatoes, 2,035,336 

 bushels ; and roots, 1,841,942 bushels. 



Crop Prospects m France. 



A Report on the state of the growing crops of wheat and 

 rye in France, at the end of January last, was published in the 

 "Journal Officid " of the 14th February. 



The Report, which is issued by the Statistical Department of 

 the Ministry of Agriculture, is compiled from observations made 

 and supplied by the departmental professors of agriculture. 

 These individual reports are then tabulated by department 

 and by groups of departments, to show figuratively the current 

 year's acreage compared with the last, as well as the state of the 

 growing crops 



For purposes of comparison, the figure 100 is taken to represent 

 the area under the same crop in the preceding year ; and as regards 

 the state of the young crops, 100 implies " very good " ; 80, 

 " good " ; 60, " rather good ; 50, " passable " ; 30, " middling " ; 20, 

 "bad." 



