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REPORTS ON FORBIGN CROPS. 
GROPSEUIN: DEE ONG D SAAS: 
The Statisticianofthe United States Department of Agricul- 
ture issued on the 1ith inst. a report on the condition of the 
gtrain crops on the 1st June. The summary, which has been 
published in the 7Zzmes, states that the condition of the 
winter wheat, 82°7 per cent., showed an increase of 15:4 per 
cent. compared with last year. A reduction is indicated in the 
acreage of spring wheat amounting to 567,000 acres, or 2:9 
per cent compared with last year. The average condition of 
the crop is returned at 87°3, against 91°4 last year, and 100'9 
in- 1898. . 
The acreage sown to oats is reported to be 3°9 per cent 
greater than last year, and the condition of the crop is repre- 
sented by the figure 91°7, compared with 88°7 in 1899 and 98 
two years ago. [The barley acreage is 0°6 per cent. larger than 
the area harvested last year, and the condition is returned as 
86°2 per cent. against 9i°4 and 73.8 respectively in the pre- 
ceding seasons. Rye occupies <n area reduced by 4.1 percent., 
and the condition of the crop was 87°6 compared with 84°5 in 
1899 and 97.1 in 1808. 

RUSSIAN HARVEST OF 18909. 
Particulars of the preliminary estimates ofthe results of the 
harvest of 1899 in Russia and Poland have already beer 
published in the issues of this Journal for December and 
March last. The Central Statistical Committee have since 
published complete details of the yields of the principal crops 
in the seventy-two governments of the Empire. According 
