The Harvest qj Ibbv at Home and Abroad. 
duce in 1888 was 3,6G2,808 bushels of wheat, 15,098,125 of rye, 
22,608,012 of barley, and 32,400,772 of oats. In 1889 the wheat 
crop was estimated at an average, which is about 5,000,000 bushels, 
the acreage having probably increased since 1881. The rye crop 
was over average, and may be put at about 16,500,000 bushels. 
Barley was much under average, and oats worse still. An average 
crop of barley is about 22,000,000 bushels, and an average crop of 
oats is about 30,000,000 bushels. 
France. — An excellent harvest was gathered last year in France. 
Complete statistics have not yet been published, except with respect 
to wheat and rye, and these are subject to revision. The following 
are the English equivalents of the areas and quantities sent to me 
by the Ministry of Agriculture : — 
1888 1889 
Wheat 17.235,990 acres 271.537,000 bush. I 17,613,813 acres 306,515,682 bush 
Rye . 4,023,240 „ 61,016,510 „ | 4,085,512 „ 71,221,883 „ 
Statistics of other crops are always very slow to appear in France, 
those for 1888 having only recently been published. They put the 
area of barley at 2,207,440 acres and the produce at 43,453,124 
bushels, the corresponding figures for oats being 9,223,664 acres 
and 233,633,880 bushels. The produce of both crops in 1889 was 
greater than these quantities. 
Spain. — An official report compares the yield of the principal 
crops of Spain in 1889 with average crops as follows : — 
1889 Average 
Wheat 73,520,000 bushels 90,136,000 bushels 
Barley 41,712,000 „ 45.976,000 
Rve 24,224,000 „ 20,336,000 
Maize 17,968,000 „ 21,424,000 
The comparison shows that the last harvest in Spain was gene- 
rally deficient, though in the autumn it was reported to be a good one. 
Switzerland. — No official agricultural statistics are collected 
for Switzerland as a whole, though crop estimates are issued in 
certain districts. In BeerboJun's List the wheat crop of 1889 is put 
at 2,400,000 bushels, as compared with 2,048,000 in 1888 ; while 
lower estimates were given some time back in Dor7ibusch's List. 
The harvest was reported to be a good one. 
Turkey and Bulgaria. — With respect to Turkey-in-Europe I 
take Mr. Beerbohm's estimate of 32,000,000 bushels as the wheat 
crop of 1889, as compared with 40,000,000 for 1888. The Bulgarian 
Minister of Finance has recently estimated the crop of Bulgaria at 
35,200,000 bushels. These are higher estimates than I have pre- 
viously seen, but they are taken as better authorised than any others. 
As the crops were smaller than in 1888, the produce of that year 
must be assumed to be greater than it lias been put before. 
The United States. — The American harvest was a good one for 
nearly all crops. The following table, compiled from the returns of 
the United States Department of Agriculture, shows the area, pro- 
duce, and yield per acre of the principal crops in 1889, as compared 
with the average yield for the twenty years ending with 1888: — 
