108 REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 

sood” in 45, ““passable” in 17, and “indiiierent “Gapqeme 
remaining department. The area sown was of the same 
extent as in 1899 in 34 departments, in 6 it was larger, and 
in 47 smaller, than last year’s acreage. Spring wheat had 
been sown in 51 departments only, and on a reduced area iu 
12 of them. The condition was reported “very good,” 
5 cases, “good” in 23, “fairly good” in 20,and “ passable 
33 
in 3 departments. 
THE AUSTRIAN HARVEST OF 1899. 
The Ministry of Agriculture at Vienna has published the 
annual statistics relating to the principal grain crops in 
Austria during the past year. The hgures, together with 
those for 1898, are given in the following table :— 










Yield. 
Crops. 
| 1899. 1898. 1899. ae 1898. 
| 7 | 
| INCHES. Actes. Bushels. Bushels. 
Wheat - - | 2,648, 100 2,608,200 49,937,5C0 45,893,000 
Rye - - = | 4,547,900 4,511,700 84, 968, 500 79,097,200 
Barley - =| 9259872050 2,884,800 66, 567,6c0 58,187,200 
Oats=) = - | 4,615,200 4,695,900 121,604,200 110,660,200 
Maize - | 830,700 836,700 14,132,300 15,475,800 
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The a area ee ae five cereals, which had been 
declining for some years, shows an increase of 42,500 
acres over 1898, though the acreage sown with oats was 
again less, and was nearly 200,000 acres smaller than in 
1895. The yield per acre except in the case of maize was 
good and above both the yield of 1898 and the average of 
the last ten years. ‘The total yield of all cereals was 
about 337,210,000 bushels as compared with 309,313,000 
bushels in 1898. 

VICTORIAN HARVEST OF 1899-1900. 
According to the preliminary returns prepared by the 
Assistant Government Statist relating to the wheat harvest 
