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ill 1898, together with the comparative figures for the two 

 preceding years. According to this preliminary statement 

 the yield is put at 16,156,000 quarters, which is slightly above 

 the average ; in 1897 the yield was only 10,529,000 quarters, 

 but in the preceding year it amounted to 17,593,000 quarters. 

 No estimate of acreage has yet been published, but the 

 average acreage for the five years 1892-96 was 11,280,000 

 acres. Maize is estimated to have yielded 79,337,000 bushels, 

 or about 5^- million bushels above the average annual pro- 

 duction of the past five years. 



Note. — Estimates of the results of this year s harvest in 

 Hungary, India, Manitoba, Ontario, and Roumania were 

 given in the September number of this Journal, Vol. V., 

 No. 2. 



