4Q4. ~ REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 
CROPS IN THE NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES. 
The annual report of the Department of Agriculture of the 
North-West. Territories of Canada for the year 1899 gives 
the estimated area and yield of certain crops in 1898 and 
1899. These statistics were collected for the first time in 1898, 
and. are based upon returns furnished by the owners of 
threshing ‘machines. The results are given in the following 
table :— 




Area. Production. ” 
| | 
1898. 1899. 1898. 1899. 
; eee ——{ Aeres.. | Acres. _ Bushels. Bushels. 
Wheat - - - =)| 3307,560 +. +) 4362-522 5,542,478 6,915,663 
Oats 226 66 =v ie - 105,077 134,938 3,316,259 4,686,036 
Barley. eae - 17,092 | 14,276 449,512 3372421 

The yield of wheat during the past year was about 
19 bushels per acre, or about 1 bushel per acre more than in 
1898, whiist oats yielded about 34? bushels in 1899 as. 
compared with 31} bushels in the preceding year. The 
figures only refer to the grain actually threshed, and do 
not include areas which were sown, but which proved un- 
productive from excessive moisture, frost or hail. 

_. THE NEW ZEALAND HARVEST OF 1899-1900. 
The Agricultural Department of New Zealand have now 
published corrected returns of the yield of grain from the 
recent harvest. The figures relating to wheat and oats, 
together with those of previous years, are shown in the 
following table :—_ 

| Wheat. Oats. 



Year. a a ca 3 
Area. Yield. Area. Yield. 
Acres. Bushels. Acres. bushels. 
1899-1900'--- -- -{| 269,749 8,581,808 398,243 10,325,832 
1595-1899 - - - 399,034 13,073,416 417,320 16,511,388 
1897-1895 15-  \. =| gre,sox 5,670,017 354,819 9,738,391 
| 1896-1897 - . - | 258,608 5,926, 523 372,597 11,232,803 
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