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that the corn harvest last year was below the average, but 

 potatoes and beet-root, as well as flax, were larger than usual. 

 The yield per acre is given as follows : — Wheat 26-0 bushels ; 

 rye 25-3 bushels; barley 37 bushels; oals 42-4 bushels; 

 potatoes 7 tons; hay r8 tons; clover 2*3 tons ; sugar-beet 

 12 tons; mangolds 17.1 tons ; and flax 4.gcwts. 



Crops in France. 



A report on the acreage and condition of the wheat and 

 rye crops in France at the beginning of this year was pub- 

 lished in the Journal Officicl of the 27th January last. Com- 

 pared with the previous year, the acreage under wheat is 

 stated to have increased from 1 to 5 per cent, in ten depart- 

 ments. It has not altered in forty-five departments, but it 

 has decreased from 1 to 5 P er cent, in twenty-five departments 

 and to a greater extent in four others. Similarly as regards 

 rye the acreage is greater than in 1899 in three departments ; 

 it has remained the same in fifty-eight and it has decreased 

 in twenty-four departments. There are two departments 

 where rye is not grown. 



The condition of the crops is represented figuratively by 

 the following numbers : 100 indicates that the appear- 

 ance of the crop is " very good," 80 means " good," 60 

 u fairly good/' 50" passable," and 30 '* middling." As 

 regards wheat, eight departments were marked 100; 57 

 varied from 99 to 80 ; 17 from 79 to 60 ; 4 from 59 to 50 ; and 

 one is indicated by the figure 30. The appearance of the 

 rye crop was "very good" in 12 departments, " good " in 54, 

 " fairly good" in 1^, and " passable " in 1 department. 



The German Harvest of 1899. 

 The method of collection of the particulars as to the con- 

 dition and statistics of the crops in Germany underwent con- 

 siderable modification last year, and comparision of the 

 returns for 1899 with those of previous years has been 



