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Reports on Foreign Crops. 



Crops in Germany. 

 L'he preliminary statement of the areas under the principal 

 crops in Germany, published in Part III. of the Viertcl- 

 fahrshefte, 1901, shows the following changes : — 



Crop. 



1901. 



1900. 



Difference. 



Acres. 



Per 



Cent. 





Acres. 



Acres. 



Decrease. 





Winter wheat - 

 Winter rye 

 Winter spelt - 

 Clover - 

 Lucerne - 

 Winter rape - 



3,139,652 

 I3,9H,I56 

 777,237 

 4,461,104 



550,494 

 126,427 



4,707,304 



I4,37i,i69 

 753,750 

 4,466,83s 

 566,618 

 173,132 



1,567,652 

 460,013 

 6,543 

 5,782 

 16, 124 

 46,705 





33*3 

 3-2 

 o-8 



O'l 



2-8 

 27*0 









Increase. 





Spring wheat - 

 Spring rye 

 Barley 

 Oats 



Potatoes - 

 Meadows 

 Hops 



Vines - - 



769,946 

 433,759 

 4,590,774 

 10,886,639 

 8,190,152 

 14,662,612 

 92,870 

 295,313 



350,970 

 334,2ii 

 4,124,663 

 10,178 922 

 7,948,850 



H,597,653 

 91,862 



294,545 



418,976 

 99,548 

 466, 1 1 1 

 707,717 

 241,302 



64,959 

 1,008 

 768 





119-4 

 29-8 



"•3 

 7-0 

 3-0 



0-4 



IT 

 0-3 



Six of these crops thus show a total decrease of 2,102,819 

 acres, and the other eight an increase of 2,000,388 acres. The 

 decreases in the areas enumerated above are practically 

 entirely due to damage by frost during the preceding winter.. 

 Returns previously made show that 1,933,654 acres had been 

 reploughed and resown during the spring, or 169,165 acres 

 less than the total amount of decreases not^d in winter crops. 

 Some portion of this difference may have remained unfilled 

 from want of seed, labour, or time, or from unsuitability of 

 the soil to carry spring crops, but most of these 169,165 

 acres have probably been sown with crops of which statistics 

 are not collected annually, such as sugar-beet, mangolds, 

 turnips, vetches, etc. 



Of bread-stuffs alone (wheat, rye, and spelt) the deficiency 

 in autumn-sown grain has only been partially supple - 

 mented by growing spring wheat and rye, although the two 

 latter exhibit very large proportionate increases. The total 



