406 



Reports on Foreign Crops. 



area, are given below, compared with the finally-revised 

 figures for the preceding year:— 



Crop. 



Area. 



Production. 



1898. 



1899. 



1898. 



1899. 



Wheat - 

 Barley - 

 Oats 

 Rye 



Mixed Corn 



Acres. 

 17,200,366 

 2,011,724 

 9,602,137 

 3,643,040 

 585,291 



Acres. 

 17,090,918 

 2,058,350 

 9,720,808 

 3,651,030 

 576,918 



Bushels. 



352,264,410 

 45,428,930 



269,676,435 

 64,691,874 

 11,620,603 



Bushels. 



354,765,125 

 46,305,325 



264,858,825 

 66,145,200 

 11,609,950 



Crops in Germany. 



The official report on the condition of the young crops in 

 Germany in the middle of November states that compara- 

 tively warm weather had caused the autumn-sown crops to 

 develop well. Wheat and rye might be considered as between 

 average and good, being most promising in the South ; 

 field-mice were, however, causing some damage. These 

 rodents were injuring the clover more seriously, and owing 

 partly to them, and partly to the long summer drought, the 

 condition of the clover was poor, particularly in the North, 

 being very bad about Stralsund and Mecklenburg. 



The Wheat Harvest in Italy. 



The production of wheat in Italy in the harvest of 1899 

 has, according to the Bollettino di Notizie Agrarie, yielded 

 1 33*650,000 bushels, this production being rather above the 

 out-turn of 1898, which is now put at 133,100,000 bushels. 

 The average annual yield of the preceding five years 

 amounted to 118,008,000 bushels, or over 15 J million bushels 

 below that of the present harvest. 



