230 Variat'oa in the Price and Supply of Wheat. 
Money has liceu extorted from landlords by threits of assassination, carriers 
have been robbed of their packages, and farmers have been plundered of their 
corn. 
Greece 
Imports cereals, provisions, and sheep, and exports wines, fruits, sponges, 
&c. Ti'.e port of ingress and egress for the trade of Greece is the Piraus 
of Athens. Population, 60,000. Employment stimulated by the presence of 
the ships of war of most nations. 
TH1''SRALY. — A drought lasted from June till December, 1863. Autumn 
produce (viz., grapes and cotton, maize, tobacco, and olive oil) were injured by 
the prevalence, for several successive days in the second week in August, of a 
violent scorching wind not unfrequeut in Thessaly, c.illed the "leevah," some- 
what resembling the desert "see-moon." It was loUowed by a six weeks' 
drought. The vintage and jjicking of cotton commenced at the close of 
September. Scarcely had a fourth of either been gathered when heavy rains 
set in, and the mountain torrents and floods swept away large tracts of produce 
in every district. Brigandage and locusts are again rife. 
The Ionian Islands, and the Island of Zante, all import corn and flour in 
proportion to the number of their population. The Island of Cephalonia 
imports about 45,000 quarters of wheat yearly from Eussia and Austria. The 
products of these islands are ciuTants and olive oil. 
Exports of currants from Cephalonia and Morea in 1866, 11,998 tons. 
Olive oil was once the stajile product of the islatid, but whole groves of olives 
have been looted up to make way for vineyarls, a sacrifice which the pro- 
prietors now regret. The crops of gi'ain in 1866, were considerably under an 
average, owing to drought in early spring ; they barely furnished three 
montlis' su])])ly for the population. This is the grain dej 6t for the supply of 
the otlier i^lands and of the o]iposite continent of Greece, extending along the 
Avesttrn seaboard from the Gulf of Patras to Cape Matapan. 
ALGERIA. Rkports by Consul Churchill from 1857 to 1863. — 
Algeria has ever been noted for its grain-] iroducing qualities. The jn'o- 
ductiveness in cereals in the northern shores of Africa was not unknovm to 
the Pon:ans ; but, while other countries which did not formeily enjoy any 
agricultural rei)ute have progressed by scientific appliances, Algeria has re- 
mained stationary. 
In 1862, 5,13!»,136 acres of land were under cultivation in Algeria, of which 
8 per cent, was cultivated by the Eur()]iean colonists and 92 per cent, by the 
natives. The total amount of cereals ]>rodviced in that year was 4,159,712 
imperial qnai'ters, and of this vast quantity of grain produced, only 82,448 
imjierial quarters, or 2 per cent., were exported. It must, however, be 
remembered that the colonists go into skilled laboin- and scientific agriculture 
to a greater extent than the natives, and jiroduce other articles of trade besides 
cereals, whereas the Arabs confine themselves more particularly to the pro- 
duction of grain. 
M. Forcadc de la Eoquette, in his valuable Report to the French Government 
in 1863, observes that the cereals in Algeria are destined to play a great part 
in the fortunes of this colony, and this may be very true, yet the proportion of 
exports of cereals, compared with the quantities produced, is so very small, that 
many years must pass before this iirediction will be realised. The fact of the 
matter is that the expenses incurred in trans] oi ting llie produce of the country 
to the sea coast are, under present circumstances, so heavy, that large quantities 
cannot be brought down. Very good roads have been njade by the Fi'ench, 
but there is not enough of them to enable the grain produced by the Arabs in 
the interior to be exported ; grain cannot bear land traiLsport beyond a cej-tain 
