The J far rest o/"188P at Home and Abroad. 
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latest available] having written to the Agricultural Department of 
every country in Europe which has one. For some countries there 
are no estimates for any crop but wheat ; but the figures for the 
other principal grain crops are given as far as there are any 
trustworthy estimates. It is necessary to point out, however, that 
even official estimates of the crops of 1889, available at the present 
time, are subject to revision in some cases ; also that the apparent 
precision of some of the estimates arises from the conversion of 
foreign into English measures, round numbers being in some cases 
made more precise by that process. 
Russia. — A revised statement of the produce of the wheat and 
rye crops of Russia-in-Europe, exclusive of Poland, was issued by 
the Russian Department of Agriculture at the end of February. 
Converted into bushels, with the corresponding figures for the two 
previous years added, the quantities are as in the following table : — 
1887 1888 1889 
Wheat . . . 268,91*2,000 bushels 285,976,000 bushels 1 7S.277.fiOO bushels 
Rye .... 721,246,538 ., 663,600,000 „ 535,704,000 
The crops of 1889 are made much smaller in this revised estimate 
than in the first one issued by the Department. 1 For Poland the 
estimates are 10,128,000 bushels of wheat, and 14,000,000 bushels 
of rye, making the totals for European Russia, including Poland, 
188,405,600 bushels of wheat and 579,704,000 bushels of rye. The 
official estimate of the wheat crop of 1888 is equal to 14,268,000 
bushels of 601b. The oat crop appears to have fallen very little 
short of that of last year, which was 512,400,000 bushels for Russia, 
exclusive of Poland, while the barley crop is about 120,000,000 
bushels, as compared with 148,400,000 bushels for 1888, and 
157,920,000 bushels for 1887. The Russian harvest was as deficient 
in 1889 as it was excessive in the two previous years. 
Roumama. — Mr. Percy Sanderson, British Consul at Galatz, 
has favoured me with an estimate of the crops of 1888, obtained 
from the Roumanian Department of Agriculture through Her 
Majesty's Charge cT Affaires at Bucharest, but informs me that the 
estimates for 1889 are not completed. As the notions of the pro- 
duce of the principal crops in Roumania are very vague, it is well 
worth while to give the official figures in English measure : — 
Wheat 3.103.080 acres 54,730,120 bushels 
Rye 743,211 „ 14.172.414 
Barley 1,251,018 „ 32,346,035 
Oats 528,407 „ 9,960,739 
Maize 4,194,008 „ 59,095.737 
The wheat crop of 1889 has been estimated bv the Minister of 
Finance at 43,400,000 bushels. 
' Estimates, which have been obligingly sent to me by the Department since 
this article was in type, give details for European Kussia, exclusive of Finland 
and the Caucasus ;is well us Poland. Allowing for certain omissions they 
appear to confirm the estimates given abuve — W. E. li. 
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