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being 15-1 bushels upon an area of 1,561,000 acres. A calcu- 

 lation based on these figures shows a total production of 

 24,000,000 bushels. 



Potatoes are reported to have given very disappointing 

 results, the average production being only 59*9 bushels per 

 acre, or smaller than that for any year since 1890. The area 

 under this tuber is returned at about 2,551,000 acres, which 

 would indicate a total production of 154,000,000 bushels. 



The hay crop seems to have been about the average. The 

 estimated yield per acre was 1*32 tons per acre over an area 

 of about 38,115,000 acres. From these figures it may be cal- 

 culated that the aggregate production amounted to about 

 50,300,000 tons, or practically the same as last year. 



The area under wheat shows an advance on last year s 

 figures of close on 1,000,000 acres, and amounts to about 

 43,000,000 acres. Details of production are not yet available. 



Cotton has also been more extensively cultivated this year, 

 the area under this plant amounting to 28,000,000 acres, or 

 8*3 per cent, in excess of the area returned last year. 



Crops in Russia. 



The Board have received through the Foreign Office a 

 report drawn up by H.M. Consul General at St. Petersburg 

 on the return recently issued by the Imperial Ministry of 

 Agriculture, upon the grain harvest in European Russia, 

 (including Poland and Cis-Caucasia), in 1901. The yield of 



the principal crops is given in 



the following table 





Crop. 



| 



1901. 



1900. 



1899. 



1 



Quarters (ooo omitted). 



Wheat, winter - - - - - J 

 „ spring - 



19,423 

 22, 106 



i3,58o 

 27,043 



17,687 

 28,929 



Total Wheat - - - - 



41,529 



40,623 



46,616 



Rye - - - - - - j 



Oats - 



Barlev - - - - - - 



Millet 



82,265 

 61,442 

 27,446 

 6,981 



97,426 

 82,516 

 25,850 



22,6oi 



97,18 

 84,323 

 27, 121 

 8,722 



