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REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 



Crops in the United States. 



The September report of the Statistician of the Department 

 of Agriculture at Washington furnishes the following 

 particulars as to the condition of the principal crops in the 

 United States of September ist, 1901. 



The average condition of the entire wheat crop when 

 harvested was 827 or 12*9 points higher than the average of 

 last year, and 2*4 points above the ten years' average. 



The general average condition of maize was 517 or 28*9 

 worse than at the corresponding date of last year and 8*3 

 points below the September average of 1881, which was the 

 lowest previously recorded. Oats had an average condition 

 of 72*1, as compared with 82*9 at the same date last year. 

 Barley showed an average condition of 83*8, this being 13*1 

 points higher than that of last year. The acreage of clover 

 seed has been reduced considerably since last year. 



Crops in Russia. 



The Board have received through the Foreign Office a 

 memorandum, drawn up by Mr. H. Cooke from official 

 sources, on the condition of the crops in the Russian 

 Empire. The report is based upon data to hand at the end 

 of July. 



The harvest of winter sown grain is reported as good in 

 the south-west, the central black soil zone, the north-west, 

 some districts of the Baltic governments and Finland. The 

 outlook is unsatisfactory in the south-east, some parts of 

 the central governments, and the greater part of Poland. 

 Elsewhere the winter grains promised an average crop. 



The spring sowings are in worse condition than the 

 winter grains. In the south-west, in Poland and part of the 



