Reports on Foreign Crops. 



from the same sources which enabled him to forecast the ship- 

 ments from Rosario for 1897 leads him to believe that the 

 export of wheat, after allowing- for home consumption and 

 seed, will be about 1,000,000 tons from the whole country,, 

 of which about 600,000 tons will be shipped from Rosario. 



The linseed crop, having suffered more severely than wheat,, 

 does not promise to furnish a surplus for export exceeding 

 the amount exported last year. 



The weather up to the time of writing the report had been- 

 exceptionally favourable for maize, and since the area sown 

 exceeds that of previous years, owing to the farmers who lost 

 their wheat or linseed from drought and frost having imme- 

 diately re-prepared their land and ^sown maize, the crop 

 promises to be an unusual one, both as regards quantity and. 

 quality. 



\ Foi'eign Office Report ^ Annual Series, No. 2032. Price i|d.] 



The Austrian Harvest of 1897. 



The Ministry of x\griculture at Vienna has recently 

 published estimates of the yield of the principal cereal crops 

 in Austria in 1897. The figures, together with those for 

 1896, are given in the following table : — 



Crop. 



Area. 



Production. 



1897. 



1896. 



1897. 



1896. 



Wheat - - - - 

 Rye - - - - 

 Barley - - - 

 Oats - - - - 

 Maize - - - - 



Acres. 

 2,614,036 

 4,541,643 

 2,898,024 

 4,722,131 

 829,369 



Acres. 

 2,614,991 

 4,535,893 

 2,909,954 

 4,737,984 

 854,212 



Bushels. 

 34,750,554 



48,218,340 

 93,192,368 

 14,316,855 







Bushels. 

 42,631,014 

 74,327,368 

 53,107,167 

 100,973,375 

 16,909,500 



The total area under the above-named cereals in the past 

 year was 15,605,000 acres, or 59*4 per cent, of the entire 

 cultivated area of Austria. The cereal acreage, however, 

 has been steadily declining for some years : in the year 

 1 89 1 it was greater by upwards of 320,000 acres than it is at 

 present. The yield of the five cereal crops mentioned above- 



