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area devoted to bread-stuffs in 1901 shows, as compared with 

 1900, a decrease of 1,515,683 acres, or 7-4 per cent. 



The damage is almost wholly in Prussia, and, in the case 

 of wheat, also in Saxony and Oldenburg. 



Crops in Roumania. 



In the Monitorul Oficial of the 5th September last the 

 Roumanian Ministry of Agriculture have published a 

 statement showing the estimated acreage and total 

 production of the principal crops in that country for 

 this year. The estimates for the leading cereal crops are 

 summarised in the following table : — 



Crop. 



Area. 



Production. 













1901. 



Average. 

 1896 1900. 



1901. 



Average. 

 1 896 -1 900. 





Acres. 



Acres. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Wheat 



4,042,296 



3,855,546 



70,149,310 



48,227,300' 



Rye - 



522,217 



501,830 



9,277,537 



6,709,725 



Barley 



1,244,134 



1,490,521 



23,473793 



19-736,475 



Oats 



654,856 



711,977 



16,028,512 



11,036,300 



Colza 



335,312 



192,907 



4,174,500 



2,123,550 



Linseed - - 



• 



5i,695 



57J3I 



536,814 



408,100 



The figures given in this table show that this year's harvest 

 was an unusually abundant one in the case of each of the 

 crops dealt with. 



Crops in Poland. 



H. M. Consul-General at Warsaw reports to the Foreign 

 Office that crops in Poland were this year seriously damaged 

 by the hard winter, although much of the land was resown 

 with spring crops. In the result the wheat, with a yield of 

 n'5 bushels to the acre, is estimated at about 65 per cent, 

 of an aveiage crop; and rye, with 1075 bushels, at about 

 70 per cent, of the normal. Oats were rather above the 

 average, yielding 22*25 bushels per acre, while barley was 

 10 per cent, below, and gave a return of 15-35 bushels. The 



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