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Landwirthschaftliche Zeitung. They indicate that the total 
yield of wheat this year in Hungary, including Croatia and 
Slavonia, amounted to 18,197,600 quarters from an acreage of 
8,342,800 acres, and that rye, on an area of 2,551,000 acres, 
yielded about 4,615,250 quarters. The areas devoted to oats 
and barley are estimated to have been 2,595,800. acres and 
2,632,000 acres respectively, from which the production is 
estimated at 7,917,000 quarters in the case of oats and 
6,636,000 quarters in the case of barley. 

CROPS IN ITALY. 
According to the official preliminary estimates issued by 
the Ministry of Agriculture at Rome, the production of wheat 
in Italy this year amounted to 14,506,000 quarters, as com- 
pared with 16,706,000 quarters in 1899. 

WHEAT CROP IN ARGENTINA IN 1899-1900. 
The Argentine Ministry of Agriculture have published the 
official estimates of the yield of wheat for the season of 1890- 
1900, from which it appears that the area sown was 7,904,000 
acres, aS compared with 7,503,000 acres in the preceding 
year. The production is estimated to have been 2,653,000 
tons in the four provinces of Buenos Ayres, Santa Fé, 
Cordoba, and Entre Rios, and 59,000 tons in the other 
provinces, making a total yield of 2,712,000 tons, as compared 
with an estimated total yield of 2,811,000 tons in 1898-99. 
The quantity required for home consumption and seed is put 
at 856,000 tons, thus leaving 1,856,000 tons available for 
exportation. | 
According to a statement published in the Gwenos clyres 
Standard of 29th October last, the area sown with wheat this 
season (1900-1901), in Argentina, is officially estimated at 
8,358,000 acres. 
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