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Reports on Foreign Crops. 



the whole favourable. Vines promised a good yield of 

 grapes, and little injury had been done by Peronospora ; 

 olives were doing well, particularly in Sicily. 



Crops and Labour in Poland. 



A report on the condition of crops in Poland and Lithuania 

 has been received through the Foreign Office from H.M. 

 Consul-General at Warsaw, who states that, in general, 

 winter sowings were bad in Poland at the end of June last, 

 while spring-sown crops were good. 



The past winter and spring were very unfavourable for 

 cereals, and the conditions appear to have been similar to 

 those prevailing in Germany. Most of the area under winter 

 corn had to be resown. In many cases farmers replanted 

 the land with potatoes, but frequent rains in the early 

 summer caused considerable damage. Concessions were 

 made by the Land Bank to agriculturists on account of the 

 adverse conditions. In Lithuania the position is very much 

 better than in Poland. 



The area sown to sugar-beet in Poland in 1901 is given as 

 160,000 acres, as compared with 144,000 in 1900. The great 

 majority of the plantations belong to private persons, only 

 4,800 acres being owned by sugar factories, and this latter 

 area, indeed, showed a decrease from the previous year. 



Labour this year has been both plentiful and cheap 

 throughout Poland. Some 200,000 labourers went, as usual, 

 to Germany in March, but a very large proportion had to 

 return, partly because a greater number than usual of 

 Galician labourers had already gone to Germany, besides 

 which the latter will take less pay. Work in factories and 

 building operations in towns had also diminished, so that 

 farm labourers were asking much lower rates than usual. 



Crops in Hungary, 



According to the reports received by the Hungarian 

 Ministry of Agriculture up to the 10th August, the wheat 



