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Reports on Foreign Crops. 



Russian Harvest of 1898. 



Particulars of the preliminary estimates of the results of the 

 harvest of 1898 in Russia and Poland have already been pub- 

 lished in the issues of this Journal for December and March 

 last. The Central Statistical Committee have since published 

 complete details of the yields of the principal crops in the 

 seventy-two governments of the Empire. According to these 

 returns the acreage and production of the chief cereals and 

 of potatoes in 1898 is estimated to have been as under : — 



Acreage y 1898. 



Governments. 





Wheat. 



Rye. 



Barley. 



Oats. 



Potatoes. 







Acres. 



Aeres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



50 European Governments- 

 to Polish Governments 

 4 Caucasian Governments - 

 4 Siberian Governments - 

 4 Asiatic Governments 





36,011,500 

 1,221,100 

 5,263,750 

 3.377»25o 

 1,150,150 



62,290.300 

 4,812,900 

 554,9oo 

 2,350,200 

 73,800 



17,591,800 

 1,047,100 

 1,444,600 

 375,4oo 

 148,400 



35,662,500 

 2,512,200 

 609,500 

 2,555,800 

 317,700 



6,571,700 

 1,930,250 

 184,600 

 146,150 

 i3,53o 



Total - 





47.023,750 



70,082,100 



20,607,300 



41,657,700 



8,846,230 



Production , 1 8 9 8 . 



Governments. 



Wheat 



Rye. 



Barley. 



Oats. 



Potatoes. 



Qrs. 



Qrs. 



Qrs. 



Qrs. 



Tons. 



50 European Governments 

 10 Polish Governments 

 4 Caucasian Governments • 

 4 Siberian Governments 

 4 Asiatic Governments 



41,650,200 

 2,703,000 

 6,511,000 

 4,505,500 

 1,862,100 



74,022,700 

 8,377,200 

 648,000 

 2,631,500 

 93, 600 



30,468,800 

 2,330,300 

 3,003,500 

 586,600 

 326,400 



57,248,400 

 5,676.100 

 1,269,500 

 5,240,800 

 861,200 



16,671,800 

 6,180,900 

 363,200 

 325.900 

 29,500 



Total - 





57,231,800 



85,773> 000 



36,715,600 



70,296,000 



23.571,300 



It will be noted 



that the 



above 



figures 



apply 



to 72 



governments, whereas in former years the returns have 

 related to 71 governments. The additional government now 

 included is the district of Tchernomorskaia in the Caucasus, 

 but the area under cultivation in this district is at present so 

 small that it does not materially affect the comparability of 

 the total figures with those for 1897. The computed areas 



