524 REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 

in“the province was 8,795,953 acres, as compared with 
8,753,926 acres in the previous year. 
The following table shows the acreage and prodiction 
of the principal crops, with the relative figures for the 
previous year and the average for the period 1882-1900. 















| Area. | | Production. | 
Crop. - == 
1990. | 1899. | 1892-1900 | 1900. 1899. | 1892-1900. 
Average. | Average. 
as Se et oli sl at : if 7 | a 
Acres. Acres. | Acres. | Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. 
Autumn Wheat - 1,068,640 1,049,691 | 917,096 | 23,369,737 | 14,439,827 | 18,491,171 
Spring do. 376,905 398.726 | 465.314 | 6.940333 | 7,041,317 | 7,231,037 
Barley - - - 577910 | 490,374 626,241 | 16,909,751 | 14,830,891 16,196,877 
Oats). t-te ne 2,398,834 | 2,363,778 1,954;384 | 89,693.327 | 89,897,724 68,319,271 
Rye = - - 142,213 | 137,524 134,211 253575035 2,284,846 | 1,851,300 
Buckwheat - - 102,570 | 132,082 100,741 1,874,261 2,203,299 1,941,359 
Potatoes - - 163,754 | 768,148 160,255 21,476,439 | 19 933-366 | 18,596,662 
Hay and Clover - 2,526,566 2,505,422 3:397;659 | 3,133,045 3,498,705 +, 310,706 

The apple crop yielded 36,993,017 bushels, or an average 
of 5°68 bushels per tree of bearing age, as compared with 
3°02 bushels per tree in the previous year. The number of 
these trees was 6,518,048, and there were also 3,430,670 
young trees. 
The yield of tobacco was estimated at 2,854,900 lbs. from 
2,477 acres, or 1,153 lbs. per acre. The area’ unegepeaee 
decreased, there being only 5,790 acres under this crop, as 
against 7,103 in 1899. Orchards and gardens accounted for 
339,411 acres, while there were 10,687 acres of vineyards. 
The animals enumerated in the province on July 1st last 
included 617,309 horses, 2,429,330 cattle, 1,797,213 sheep, and 
1,771,041 Swine. 

CROPS AND LIVE STOCK IN MANITOBA IN 1900. 
The Report of the Department of Agriculiure of Manitoba, 
published in Deceimber last, in speaking of the yield of wheat 
in 1900, says that neverin the history of the Province has the 
harvest been gathered and threshed under such unfavourable 
