Reports on Foreign Crops. 



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able for export from the last harvest amounts to between 

 750,000 to 850,000 tons, of which some 500,000 tons will 

 probably be shipped from the port of Rosario. 



Mr. Laing remarks that it is certain that the wheat acreage 

 in Argentina will be considerably increased this year, as not 

 only are present prices very remunerative, but the Govern- 

 ment measures for the destruction of the locusts and for 

 providing the poorer colonists with seed wheat, to be repaid 

 after the crop is harvested and sold, have been most 

 successful. 



The exports of wheat from Argentina in 1897 amounted to 

 94,289 tons, of which 10,802 tons were shipped to the United 

 Kingdom, 14,308 tons to Belgium, and 46,249 tons to 

 Brazil. : , 



Crops in Austria. . 



According to the Austrian official reports on the condition 

 of the crops at the middle of May, quoted in the Wiener 

 Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung oi the 25th May last, there appear 

 to have been copious rains throughout the country since the 

 date of the previous report. Rye stood very well, with few 

 exceptions, and the same might be said of the wheat, which 

 had been less injured by the wet, and in the north was better 

 than the rye. Spring corn, except in Bohemia and parts of 

 Eastern Galicia, was promising, and the plant was generally 

 coming up well, particularly barley ; oats were satisfactory. 

 The warm rains experienced in most parts had been very 

 favourable to clover and meadows ; the former was in many 

 cases unusually fine, and cutting had already begun 

 Potatoes and hops were both backward, owing to the wet and 

 cold. The prospects of flax and fruit were not so good, but 

 -the vines looked very well. 



Crops in Hungary. / 

 The ofticial reports on the prospects of the harvest in 

 Hungary, received through the Foreign Office, indicate that 



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