Reports on Foreign Crops. 



from the same sources which enabled him to forecast the ship- 

 ments from Rosario for 1 897 leads him to believe that the 

 export of wheat, after allowing for home consumption and 

 seed, will be about 1,000,000 tons from the whole country,, 

 of which about 600,000 tons will be shipped from Rosario. 



The linseed crop, having suffered more severely than wheats 

 does not promise to furnisli a surplus for export exceeding 

 the amount exported last year. 



The weather up to the time of writing the report had been 

 exceptionally favourable for maize, and since the area sown 

 exceeds that of previous years, owing to the farmers who lost 

 their wheat or linseed from drought and frost having imme- 

 diately re-prepared their land and [sown maize, the crop 

 promises to be an unusual one, both as regards quantity and 

 quality. 



\_Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2032. Price i|d.] 



The Austrian Harvest of 189;. 



The Ministry of Agriculture at Vienna has recently- 

 published estimates of the yield of the principal cereal crops 

 in Austria in 1897. The figures, together with those for 

 1896, are given in the following table : — 



Crop. 



Area. 



Production. 



1897. 



1896. 



1S97. 



1896. 





Acres. 



Acres. 



Bushels. 



Bushels. 



Wheat - 



2.614,036 



2,614,991 



34,750,554 



42,631,014 



Rye - 



4,541,643 



4,535,893 



63,792,787 



74,327,368 



Barley - 



2,898,024 



2,909.954 



48,218,340 



53,io7,i67 



Oats - 



4,722,131 



4,737,984 



93,192,368 



100,973,375 



Maize - 



829,369 



854,212 



14,316,855 



16,909,500 



The total area under the above-named cereals in the past 

 year was 15,605,000 acres, or 59-4 per cent, of the entire 

 cultivated area of Austria. The cereal acreage, however, 

 has been steadily declining for some years : in the year 

 1 89 1 it was greater by upwards of 320,000 acres than it is at 

 present. The yield of the five cereal crops mentioned above 



