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three million apple-trees and upwards in bearing at the date 
of the last census have reported a production in excess of the 
ten years’ average. | 
There has also been a large production of pears, California 
alone, out of the ten principal pear-producing States, failing 
to report a crop in excess of the ten years’ average. 

CRopS IN Russia. 
Her Majesty’s Consul-General at St. Petersburg has 
forwarded through the Foreign Office a summary transla- 
tion of a report issued by the Rural Statistical Section of the 
Russian Ministry of Agriculture on the grain harvest of 
European Russia for thecurrent year. The report, which is 
based upon replies received from 7,100 agricultural correspon- 
dents, states that the general grain harvestin European Russia 
must be estimated as below the average. As regards winter- 
sown grain the yield of rye was slightly above, while 
that of wheat was considerably below, the average. The 
best crops of rye were secured within the zone of its more 
general cultivation, namely, in the central agricultural and 
Mid-Volga provinces ; at the same ‘time unsatisfactory 
returns of this grain were obtained in. Bessarabia, Kherson, 
the Taurida, and the South-Western provinces. 
The region of unsatisfactory rye crops, from 50 to 75 
per cent. of the average, embraced 49 districts of 21 provinces. 
In 67 districts of 27 provinces this crop was below the average 
from 75 to 90 per cent. Inthe other parts of European Russia 
the rye crop was satisfactory, proving even good in the central 
agricultural zone. | | 
Winter-sown wheat, on the contrary, yielded a bad harvest 
in those localities in which wheat forms the main object of 
cultivation, z.¢c., in the South-Western and New Russia 
regions. (Good crops of it were, however, obtained in the 
central agricultural provinces, andin some parts they were 
better than those of rye. | 
The yield of spring-sown grain is estimated as approaching 
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