REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 405 


The yield of wheat, though less than that of 1899, is sub- 
stantially above that of previous recent years, and with. the 
surplus left from the last harvest, will, it is stated, furnish a 
considerable balance available for export. The quantity 
wnich the Department estimate is required for seed and 
home consumption is 5,354,000 bushels, and the apparent 
surplus available for export is calculated to be over 7 million 
bushels. The actual quantity exported in the year ended 
31st March las was 3,354,000 bushels of wheat and 3,300 tons 
offlour. The yield of oats is nearly as great as the heavy crop 
of tie previous year, of which 4,647,476 bushels were exported 
in the year 1899-1900. The yield of barley was 1,585,145 
bushels, and of maize 669,£96 bushels. - 
CROPS IN ROUMANIA. 
In the Suletin Statistic al Romintetx the Roumanian 
Ministry of Agriculture have published preliminary estimates 
of the area and production of the principal crops: in that 
country for the current year. The figures are given in the 
table below, together with those of the previous two years :— 




Wheat. | Barley. Rye. | Oats. 
| 
Produc: | | Produc- Produc- Produc: 
US tion. | SSA, | tion. Area. tion. Area. tion. 
| 
| Acres. | Bushels. | Acres. | Bushels. { Acres. | Bushels. | Actes. |: Bushels. 
3,927,251 | 54,777,867 | 1,086,145 | 14,124,553] 405,819 | 5,802,291 | 629,433 | 8,415,473 
| 
4,103,559 | 25,258,558 | 1,577,515 | 4.402,530 | 467,670 | 1,926,925 | 766,219 | 6,062,128 





31590,392 | 56,650,275 | OES Rie eoy 476,928 | 7,392,825 | 755,697 116,872,075 


It will be remembered that the Roumanian harvest of 1899 
was practically a failure, and though this fortunately has been 
followed by more encouraging results this season, yet com- 
pared with the estimates for 1898 the crops harvested were, 
except in the case of wheat, considerably short of the vields 
of the former year. 7 vate 
A better criterion of the results of the year’s harvest is 
