Reports on Foreign Crops. 



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lucerne together are put at 42*9. In the case of these 

 crops, the more southern districts, and as far north as Saxony, 

 report better yields than Prussia, the highest returns of all 

 coming from Baden. 



The above data, based upon trial threshings of the new 

 grain, are compared with similar data for previous years. The 

 final returns of the German harvest of 1897, recently issued, 

 show the area and production of the principal crops last year 

 to have been as follows (the mean yield of the ten years 1887- 

 96 being added for comparison) : — 



Crop. 



Area. 



Yield 



1897. 



Average 







Yield per 





1897. 



Total Yield. 



Yield 

 Per Acre. 



Acre 

 1887-96, 





Acres. 



Qrs. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Wheat - 



4,744,000 



13,353,000 



22*5 



21 -2 



Rye 



14,738,000 



31,774,000 



17-2 



16-0 



Barley 



4,115,000 



12,331,000 



24-0 



23-9 



Oats 



9,878,000 



34,138,000 



27-6 



27-2 





Tons. 



Czvts. 



Czuls, 



Potatoes 



7,577,000 



29,269,000 



77-2 



71-2 



Fodder Beets - 



1,150,000 



10,454,000 



181-9 



I5I-I 



Sugar Beets - 



1,093,000 



12,412,000 



227-1 





Clover - 



4,405,000 



6,863,000 



31-2 



237 



Lucerne - 



533,000 



1,121,000 



42-1 



237 



Meadow Hay - 



14,603,000 



20,833,000 



28-6 



33-6 



Crops in Austria. 



The October report of the Austrian Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture states that the corn harvest generally had given very 

 satisfactory results in that country ; only in the case of barley 

 was the yield occasionally small, while the quality of this 

 grain was not always good. Maize was hardly up to the 

 average. Sugar-beets were mostly very small, so that only 

 a middling yield was expected, but the sugar-contents were 

 very satisfactory. ^ 



Crops in Italy. 

 The Italian Ministry of Agriculture has issued a pre- 

 liminary estimate of the yield of the wheat and maize harvest 



