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REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 



Crops in the United States. 



The final report of the Statistician of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, issued in January last, gives the 

 following particulars as to the acreage and production of 

 the principal crops in 1898 in that country : — 





Area. 



Production. 



Crop. 











1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



Wheat - 



Acres. 

 44,055,278 



Acres. 

 39,465,066 



Winchester 

 Bushels. 



675,148,705 



Winchester 

 Bushels. 



530,149,168 



Maize 



77,721,781 



80,095,051 



1,924,184,660 



1,902,967,933 



Oats 



25>777>iio 



25,730,375 



730,905,643 



698,767,809 



Rye - - 



1,643,207 



1,703,561 



25,657,522 



27,363,324 



Barley - 



2,583>i25 



2,719,116 



55,792,257 



66,685,127 



Buckwheat 



678,332 



717,836 



1 1,721,927 



14,997,451 



I'otatoes 



2,557,729 



2,534,577 



192,306,338 

 Tons. 



164,015,964 

 Tons. 



Hay 



42,780,827 



42,426,770 



66,376,920 



60,664,876] 



The acreage under wheat, which, as already noted, has 

 been the subject of a special inquiry, is thus 4,500,000 acres 

 more than in 1897, and exceeds by over four million acres 

 the highest hitherto recorded, in 1891, in which year the 

 area was estimated to be not quite 40,000,000 acres. The 

 production also represents the heaviest total harvested, in 

 the States, and is put at over sixty million bushels more than 

 in 18,91, the only occasion when the production was calcu- 

 lated to have exceeded 600,000,000 bushels. The average 



