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crop in Hungary is estimated to have yielded this year about 

 15,941,000 quarters, as compared with 16,912,000 quarters 

 last year. The estimated yields of the other principal cereals 

 are as follows: — Rye, 5,294,000 quarters, against 4,776,000 

 quarters in 1899 ; barley, 5,786,000 quarters, against 6,396,000 

 quarters; and oats 6,945,003 quarters against 7,319,000 

 quarters. 



Potatoes were reported to be in good condition, and sugar- 

 foeet arid other roots were also satisfactory. 



Crops in Austria. 



According to the official report for the middle of August, 

 the rye harvest in Austria was nearly over, the yield being 

 in most places a good average, though somewhat less in 

 Galicia. The wheat had hardly come up to expectation ; it 

 appears on the whole to be described as not more than 

 average. A similar condition prevailed with barley, of 

 which the quality had suffered from rain. Oats were rather 

 better than barley in some districts, but much the same in * 

 others. Maize, although it had suffered from rain in places, 

 was on the whole above the average. Hay had proved fairly 

 satisfactory only in Galicia and the Alps. Potatoes and 

 beetroot, with few exceptions, were doing well. 



Crops in Norway. 



Reports received through the Foreign Office state that the 

 hay crop may probably be estimated at considerably above 

 the average throughout the east and south of Norway, as 

 well as in the most northerly districts. On the west coast up 

 to Stavangerthe hay crop has also been good, but poorer to 

 the north of this and in the neighbourhood of Trondhjem. 



The corn and potato crops are expected to be under the 

 average in most districts in Norway. 



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