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acreage of the previous year was expected in most districts’ 
though larger areas than usual had been devoted to jawar 
and other crops. A. moderate yield was expected with early 
rain, which had subsequently fallen. In Bombay the area was 
reported as greatly below the average, although exceeding 
the previous year’s abnormally low figure; the crop was 
reported to be fair generally. In Sind the area was 5 per 
cent. below the average, but sowings were still in progress ; 
the crop was generally in goodcondition. In Berar the pros- 
pects were not favourable, the area was estimated as hardly 
more than half the normal, and a poor yield was anticipated. 
THE ARGENTINE HARVEST OF 1900-190I. 
According to the official Bole/in issued by the Argentine 
Ministry of Agriculture, preliminary estimates of the results 
of the wheat harvest of 1900-1901 in Argentina indicated 
that the crop was not so abundant as in the previous year. 
The probable production of wheat and flax in the four chief 
provinces of the Republic is estimated as follows, the figures 
being subject to subsequent revision and correction :— 


Wheat. Flax. 
Tons. Tons. 
Santa Fé - - . - 884,000 275,000 
Buenos Ayres’ - - - 872,000 113,000 
Cordoba - - - - 554,000 105,000 
Entre Rios - - - 88,000 24,000 
2,398,000 517,000 
The Bucnos Ayres Standard of January 20th last states that 
the wheat harvest in the entire Republic is officially esti- 
mated to have produced 2,542,000 tons, of which 1,712,000 
tons will be available for export. 

CROP PROSPECTS IN FRANCE. 
A report relating to the condition of the crops of winter 
wheat and rye in France during the month of January 
last was published in the Journal Officiel of the 8th ult. 
The acreage of winter wheat is reported to be larger than 
