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oats, spring wheat, barley, and rye is expected to be con- 
siderably above the average. Potatoes, too, appear nearly 
everywhere to have been in fine condition ; the prospects of 
this crop at the date of the report had seldom been so good, 
and- were reported to be better than at the corresponding 
period in any of the past seven years. Clover and lucerne 
had suffered very much through the dry season, and though 
these had been improved in parts by the rainfall at the 
beginning of August it was feared that there would be a 
scarcity of fodder. 

CROPS INTAUSTREA 
According to the report of the Austrian Ministry of Agri- 
culture on the condition of crops in the middle of August, 
wheat had at that date been mostly gathered in. The yield 
was satisfactory in Upper and Lower Austria, where the 
quality was generally good, and in the Alpine districts, where 
a crop of average quality was obtained. In Moravia and 
Bohemia the yield was less than last year, and in the east ot 
Austria, which had suffered much from drought, the wheat 
harvest was reported to be much inferior to that of last 
year. Barley in Upper and Lower Austria, which was ready 
for cutting in July, had been successfully harvested, but in the 
rest of the country the harvest operations had been retarded 
by rain, and much of the barley was still uncut. The cutting 
of the oats was to a large extent in progress, and the crop 
promised, except in the eastern districts and some parts ot 
Bohemia, to be the best among the cereals. Maize had 
suffered from the dryness of the season and the heat, but it 
recovered to a large extent in August, and promised to yield 
a good crop, especially in the eastern and Alpine districts. 
Potatoes were expected to give a satisfactory yield, and the 
hay crop is reported to have been on the whole a good one. 
CROPS IN HUNGARY. 
According to the reports received by the Hungarian 
Ministry of Agriculture up to the 1oth July, the wheat crop 
