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ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL CENSUS OF 1895. 



The recently-published reports on the results of the Argen- 

 tine Census of 1895 furnish some interesting information 

 relating to the progress of agriculture in the Republic. It 

 appears that the area of cultivated land as ascertained in 

 1895 amounted to 11,579,000 acres, as against 5,985,000 acres 

 returned at the census of 1888 ; from these figures it results 

 that the extent of land under cultivation had nearly doubled 

 in the interval between the two inquiries. This great exten- 

 sion was mainly accounted for by the increase in the surface 

 sown with cereals, and particularly with wheat. The dis- 

 tribution of the cultivated land at the two periods was as 

 follows : — 



1888.* 1895. 



Acres. Acres. 



Cereals 4,364,000 9,227,000 



Industrial plants 140,000 308,000 



Potatoes, pulse, and vegetables - - - 101,000 222,000 



Lucerne and other forage crops - - - 969,000 1,821,000 



* The figures shown under the various crops for this year do not account for the 

 whole of the 5,985,000 acres returned as cultivated area. 



Wheat is the most important of the corn crops produced in 

 Argentina, and the rapid growth of the area devoted to its 

 cultivation is one of the remarkable features brought out by 

 the Census. In 1895 the surface sown with this cereal was 

 5,062,717 acres; whereas in 1888 it was returned at 2,014,132 

 acres; and in 1871 at 1,432,600 acres. 



Maize occupied 3,073,130 acres in 1895, or 1,093,207 acres 

 more than in 1888, when the total area under this grain was 

 1,979,922 acres. Linseed, which is treated in the more recent 

 census returns as a cereal, was grown on 956,690 acres, as 



