REPORTS OX FOREIGN CROPS. 



United States Wheat Harvest. 

 According to the January number of the Crop Reporter, the 

 returns collected by the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington indicate that the average yield per acre of 

 wheat for the past season in the United States was 14-8 

 bushels, as compared with 12-3 bushels in 1900 and a mean of 

 13-3 bushels in the last ten years. According to data supplied 

 in earlier numbers of the Crop Reporter, the total area under 

 Avheatin 1901 was about 43,326,000 acres, and from the figures 

 now available as to the average yield pn that area, it appears 

 that the total wheat crop of the country last year amounted to 

 about 641,000,000 bushels, as compared with 522,000,000 

 bushels in 1900. 



Crops ix India. 

 In ihe first general memorandum on the wheat crop of 

 India during the season of 1901-02, it is stated that the 

 excellent harvest of last spring will not be equalled, the 

 conditions which prevailed during the sowing season having 

 been unfavourable for the repetition of the extensive sowings 

 of last season. In Northern India there has been a great 

 contraction in the area placed under wheat, a decrease of 

 1,500,000 acres being recorded in the Panjab, most of it on 

 unirrigated lands. The monsoon rains toivards the end of 

 the summer were scanty, and ceased prematurely. In 

 Central and "Western India, also, conditions w r ere unprc - 

 pitious, and rain was badly needed. At the time of waiting 

 (December some rain had set in, and it is thought that, if 

 this were to prove the beginning of a period of normal a,nd 

 general rainfall, the prospects would be greatly improved. 



