402 REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 


the average. Poor crops were gathered in Bessarabia, Kher- 
son, the Taurida, Podolia, and Kieff, in consequence of 
prolonged drought. On the other hand, these crops proved 
completely satisfactory in the Cis-Ural and Cis-Volga pro- 
vinces. 
On the basis of the trial threshings the yield of the grain 
crops in 1900 throughout European Russia, inclusive also 
of the Northern Caucasus and Poland, is estimated as follows. 
The figures for 1899 have been added for purposes of com- 
parison. 
1900. 1900. 1899: 
: Cwts. Quarters. Quarters. 
Wheat - - -  - 173,479,000 = 40,479,000 46,449,000 
Rye . - - - 415,251,000 = 96,892,000 96,841,000 
Barley” - - - - 91,980,000 = 25,754,000 27,023,000 
Oats - - - - 221,921,000 = 79,664,000 84,021,000 
The Trade and Industries Gazette, in publishing the above 
figures, furnishes the estimates for the 50 Governments ot 
European Russia, Poland, and the Caucasus separately. 
These estimates are reproduced below :— 
tes Governments Total for 
of European Poland. | Caucasus. 63 Govern- 
Russia. ments. 

Qrs. Ors. Qrs. 
i Wheat, winter - a - - fc 1,935,000 3,643,000 13,531,000 
| Wheat, spring - . - - | ‘25 5 _— 1,610,000 26,948,000 
| Rye - - = = Par: 6,798,000 669,000 | 96,892,000 
Barley - = = > 2 > 21,706,000 1,899,000 2,149,000 | 25,754,000 
f Oats - - - - - : 73,015,000 5,004,000 

| 5 
1,645,000 70,664,000 
| 
In a later despatch the Consul-General states that the 
Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of the Interior 
have also issued an estimate of the results of this year’s 
harvest. The estimates for the 63 Governments of European 
Russia, Poland, and the Caucasus are for wheat, 49,410,000 
quarters ; rye, 105,127,000; barley, 27,855,000; and oats, 
83,262,000 quarters. 
CROPS IN HUNGARY. 
The preliminary official estimates of the results of the 
Hungarian harvest of 1900 have been published in the Weer 
