226 The Harvest of 1880 at Home and Abroad. 
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. — A preliminary official report on the prin- 
cipal cereal crops of Austria, exclusive of Hungary, recently issued, 
puts the quantities as below compared with those of 1888 : — 
1888 1839 
Wheat 33.993.000 bushels 29,961,250 bushels 
Barley 46,733,500 „ 37.908,750 
Oats 84,931,000 „ 67,562,000 „ 
Rye 64,718,500 „ 68,115,750 
No official report of the acreage appears to have been issued at 
present. In 1888 the areas were 2,964,360 acres of wheat, 2,828,600 
of barley, 4,685,180 of oats, and 5,033,400 of rye. 
No recent official report on the harvest in Hungary has been 
issued, but one from Consul Faber, published in September by the 
Board of Agriculture, gives the following figures for 1889 : — 
Wheat 7,540,000 acres 95,000,000 bushels 
Rye 3,290,000 „ 46,000,000 
Barley 2,594,000 „ 38,000,000 
Oats 2,639,000 ,, 37,000,000 „ 
The acreage is much greater than that given for 1888 in our 
Agricultural Returns, and I fancy that it must have been miscalcu- 
lated ; but the produce tallies sufficiently in the two accounts, con- 
sidering that the crops in Hungary in 1889 were very much below 
average. According to the Agricultural Returns the areas and 
produce of the principal cereals in 1888 were as follows : Wheat, 
6,841,999 acres and 131,670,278 bushels; rye, 2,731,203 acres and 
40,894,216 bushels ; barley, 2,423,996 acres and 43,721,436 bushels; 
and oats, 2,581,451 acres and 54,771,651 bushels. It will be seen, 
then, that, according to Consul Faber's figures, there was a great 
reduction in the produce of every crop but rye in 1889. 
Germany. — In this country the crops were deficient in a marked 
degree in 1889. The Avheat crop, grown on 4,775,342 acres in 1888, 
and producing 92,024,000 bushels, is estimated to have produced 
only about 84,000,000 bushels last year. The areas and produce of 
the other principal cereals in 1888 were as follows: Rye, 14,361,205 
acres and 202,868,650 bushels ; barley, 4,256,094 acres and 99,646,800 
bushels; oats, 9,466,245 acres and 266,060,000 bushels. The pro- 
duce in 1889 was much smaller in each case. » 
Italy. — The latest official statements of acreage are the follow- 
ing, being average areas for the period 1879-83 : Wheat, 10,951, 3 I 1 * 
acres; maize, 4,675,999 acres; oats, 1,099,051 acres; barley, 856,552 
acres; rye, 396,894 acres; beans and peas, 1,779,929 acres. The 
produce in 1887 and 1888 and the preliminary estimate of that of 
the most important crops in 1889 will be found below : — 
1887 1888 1889 
Wheat . . . 115,633,158 bushels 101,032,822 bushels 100,630,475 bushels 
Maize . . . 72,452,845 „ 62,863,243 „ 72,834,025 
Oats. . . . 16,157,034 „ 13,722,101 „ 14,428,425 „ 
Barley , . . 7,720,575 „ 6,566,736 „ — 
Rye ... . 4,204,904 „ 3,536,316 „ — 
Tulso . . . 12,157,414 „ 11,259,358 „ — 
