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REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 



[Sept. 1890. 



Crops in Roumania. 



The Board have received from the Foreign Office a despatch 

 sent by Mr. A. Percy Bennett, Her Majesty's Acting Consul- 

 General at Galatz, which states that at the end of July last 

 harvesting operations in Roumania were being actively carried 

 on, and that from all parts of the country reports were coming to 

 hand of the exceptional excellence of this year's crops both as to 

 quality and quantity. 



Wheat and barley gave promise of a harvest incomparably 

 superior to that of the last three years, and it is probable 

 that the maize crop will be one of the best Roumania has ever 

 known. The weather generally being favourable for cutting and 

 threshing the grain, the export of the new crops was expected 

 to begin in the course of a few weeks. 



