The Harvest of 1889 at Home and Abroad. 229 
Crop 
Area in acres 
Produce in bushels 
Yield per 
acre 
(bushels) 
Average for 
20 years 
(bushels) 
Wheat . . . 
38,123,859 
490,560,000 
129 
122 
Maize . . . 
78,319,651 
2,112,892,000 
270 
254 
Oats . . . 
27,462,316 
751,515,000 
274 
281 
Barley is reckoned quite one of the minor crops in the United 
States, only about three million acres of it being grown, and the 
estimated produce for 1889 is not yet made known. The latest 
report states that " the minor cereals make about their usual pro- 
duct." The potato crop was very abundant in the West, and deficient 
in the East. 
Canada. — It is only from Ontario and Manitoba that agricul- 
tural statistics are issued annually. But it is in those provinces 
that nearly all the wheat produced in Canada is grown, the great 
province of Quebec, for instance, having less than a quarter of a 
million acres under that cereal, and producing only about two million 
bushels annually. 
The final returns of Ontario for the principal crops, those of 1889 
being compared with the averages for 1882-9, are as below : — 
Area 
Produce 
Yield per acre 
Crops in 
Ontario 
1889 
1882-9 
1889 
1882-9 
1889 
1882-9 
Aces 
Acres 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Busl els 
Bnsbdi 
Winter wheat 
822,115 
932,300 
13,001,865 
18,056.559 
15 o 
19-4 
Spring „ 
398.610 
565,385 
5.697,707 
8 804,317 
143 
15-6 
Barley . . . 
875,286 
772,245 
23,386,388 
20.218,930 
26-7 
26-2 
Oats . . . 
1,923,144 
1,613,631 
64,346,301 
57,041,035 
335 
353 
Peas . . . 
708,( 68 
644,498 
13,509,237 
13.171,725 
191 
204 
Tons 
Tors 
Ton 
Ton 
Hay. . . . 
2,386,223 
2,236,622 
3,728,313 
3,041,077 
1 56 
1-36 
Wheat, oats, and peas, it will be seen, were below the average 
in 1889, barley and hay being above the average. The average of 
wheat has been decreasing for several years, while the cultivation 
of other crops has been extended. 
In the case of Manitoba the acreage and yield in 1889 are com- 
pared with the averages for the five years ending with 1887, as 
shown in the following table : — 
Crops in 
Area 
Produce 
Yield per acre 
Manitoba 
1889 
1833-7 
1889 
1883-7 
1889 
1883-7 
Wheat . . 
Ac es 
Aires 
Bushels 
Bushels 
Bnshels 
Bushels 
623,245 
339,950 
7,201,519 
7,137,210 
12-4 
20 6 
Barley . . 
80,238 
53,383 
1.051,551 
1,308,437 
136 
258 
Oats . • . 
218,744 
155,716 
3,415,104 
5,302,963 
168 
337 
Hay . . . 
Tons 
Tons 
Ton 
Ton 
199,501 
278,843 
104 
153 
