REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 105 


For purposes of comparison it may be useful to reproduce 
the estimates of the acreage and yields of these crops in the 
Russian Empire in 1898. These were returned by the Central 
Statistical Committee as follows :— 

| Wheat. Rye: Barley. Oats. Potatoes. 
Governments. 

Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres, Acres. 

50 European Governments- 36,011,500 | 62,290,300 | 17,591,800 | 35,662,500 | 6,571,700 
to Polish Governments I,221,100 4,812,900 |" 1,047,100 ; 2,512,200 | 1,930.250 
4 Caucasian Governments- - = || 5,263,750 554,900 | 1,444,600 609, 500 184,600 
4 Siberian Governments) - 2,377,250 | 2,350,200 375,400,| 2,555,800 146,150 
4 Asiatic Governments - - ETS OMSO, 73,€00 148,400 317,700 13,530 








Total-  - = = | 47,023,750 | 70,082,100 | 20,607,300 | 41,657,709 | 8,846,230 
(sme ater nssen 


Production, 1808. 









Wheat. , Rye. Barley. Oats. Potatoes. 
Governments. - 
Ors. Qrs. Ors. Ors. Tons. 
50 European Governments - - | 41,650,200 | 74,022,700 | 30,468,800 | 57,248,400 | 16,671,800 
10 Polish Governments - - -{| 2,703,000] 8377,200 | 2,330,300 | 5,676,100 | 6,180,900 
4 Caucasian Governments - - - | 6,511,000 648,coo | 3,003,500 | 1,269,500 363,200 
4 Siberian Governments —- - - | 4,505,500 | 2,631,500 586,600 | 5,240,800 325,900 
4 Asiatic Governments - - - | 1,862,100 93,600 326, 400 861,200 29,500 
Total- - = | 57,231,800 | 85,773,000, | 36,715,600 | 70,296,000 | 23.571,300 


GROESHIN Te ENIDLAG 
The second general memorandum on the wheat crop ol 
India for the season 1899-1900 was published in March last, 
and stated that Bengal was the only province in which an 
average yield of wheat was expected. In the North-Western 
Provinces and Oudh the conditions were not so good as in 
Bengal, and the yield was not expected to be more than 
three-fourths to four-fifths of the average. In the Panjab the 
adverse conditions of the season have been more severely 
