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REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 

 The United States Crop of 1898. 



A telegraphic summary in The Times states that the 

 Statistician of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 in his report of June loth, puts the acreage under wheat at 

 43,000,000 acres, or 8 per cent, more than the 39,465,000 acres 

 which are the officially revised figures for 1897. In 1895 and 

 1896 the acreage was estimated at between 34 and 35 

 million acres. Of the total in 1897, 26,200,000 acres are under 

 winter wheat, and the remaining 16,800,000 under spring 

 wheat. These figures are stated to be liable to revision, 

 particularly as regards spring wheat in the two Dakotas. 



The average condition of winter wheat is put at 90*8, the 

 highest June average since 1891, and this in spite of one of 

 the chief States (California) reporting a figure of 33 ordy. 

 The average of spring wheat is given as 100-9, ^ figure 

 almost, if not entirely, unprecedented. 



The total acreage under oats is estimated to be 25,300,000 

 acres, as compared with 25,730,375 last year; the average 

 condition of the oat crop is 98, or 9 points higher than at the 

 same period of last year. The barley acreage is estimated to 

 be 2,575,000 acres, or 5-3 per cent, less than 1897, when it 

 was 2,719,1 16 acres. 



The United States Harvest of 1897. 



The United States Department^of Agriculture issued early 

 in May the final Report of the Statistician of the Department, 

 Mr. John Hyde, on the crops of 1897 ; and from this the 

 following statement has been compiled, showing the acreag'e 



