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Reports on Fore i gn Crops. 



bey.ond delaying the carrying of the crops no serious damage 

 appears to have been done. Whsat is considered to have 

 furnished a good yield on the whole, though the ears were 

 generally small. Rye and oats appear to have been very 

 unequal, and no estimate of a general character as to this 

 season's production of these grains could be made. On light 

 lands oats proved, as a rule, to be imperfectly developed and 

 very short in the straw. 



Roots and potatoes were reported to be flourishing at the 

 end of August, and turnips were doing particularly well. 



Meadows and grasses generally were in good condition. 



Crops in France. 



The latest official information relating to the condition of 

 the French crops refers to the middle of July. At that time 

 the condition of the winter wheat crop was reported to be 

 good or fairly good in sixty-four departments, passable in 

 tv/elve, and indifferent in eight. The condition of this crop 

 in the south-western district was less satisfactory than in 

 other parts of the country, the average condition of nine 

 departments being passable, and the crop in Dordogne, Lot- 

 et-Garonne, and Landes being reported to be indifferent. 



Spring wheat was also stated to be in a good or fairly 

 good condition in most of the departments where this cereal 

 is grown. Similar favourable reports were received from 

 sixty-five departments as tO barley and rye, and from sixty- 

 nine departments as to oats. 



The potato crop in six departments was very good, 

 and good or fairly good in sixty-eight departments. In 

 nineteen departments the permanent pasture was reported 

 to be in a very good condition, and good or fairly good 

 in fifty-seven departments. The rotation grasses also 

 appeared to be in a satisfactory condition. 



Note. — Since the above was printed the Board have received a copy of the official 

 preHminary estimate, published on September 14th, of the results of this year's harvest 

 of wheat, mixed corn, and rye in France. The yield of wheat is estimated to have 

 amounted to 243,531,000 bushels, or 85,760,000 bushels short of last year's crop. 



