REPORTS ON FOREIGN CROPS. 525 


conditions, whilst up to the first week of July the drought was 
so severe that many acres of land sown with wheat were 
ploughed up as it was believed that the crop would not be 
worth cutting. The average yield was returned at 8:9 bushels. 
per acre, but only a small percentage of the crop graded as 
«No. « hard” ; a considerable part was graded “ No. 2 hard” ;- 
but the greater part was ‘No. 3 hard” and inferior qualities. 
The following table gives the final results of the harvest 
of cereals, potatoes, and roots in the past year, together with 
the figures for 1899, and it will be seen that in the case of 
wheat and oats the yield was less than one-half that of the. 
previous year, whilst the production of the other crops was. 
not much better. 









Area. | Production. 
| 
Crop. | S| - 
| 1900. 1899. | 1900. | 1899. 
| 
| | , 
| Acres, Acres. |  Bushels. Bushels. | 
Wheat - - - aM) teh 7300 1,629,995 | 13,025,252 | 27,922,230 
Oats - - - - | 429,108 575,136 | 8,814,312 | 22,318,378 
auleyerciy oo = | 155,110 182,912 | 2,939,477 | 5,379,156 
Potatoes - - E 16,880 19,151 2,226,880 | 3,236,395 
Roots. - - - = | 7,482 | 10,079 1,452,780 2,670, 108 

iireswieldsor lax was 1ou,3i3) bushels, of rye 25,702 
bushels, and of peas 9,048 bushels. 
The numbers of live stock in the Province compared very 
favourably with those of 1899, the returns showing 118,629. 
hoEses.9 237,500) Cattle) 25,810 sheep, and 77,912 pigs, or an 
imckedse OF 15,974 horses, 17,312 cattle, and 11,901 pigs, but 
a decrease of 7,276 sheep. The production of dairy and 
creamery butter during 1900 was 3,338,431 Ilbs., or an. 
increase, in spite of the unfavourable season, of 981,382 lbs. 
over the production of 1899. The out-turn of factory cheese- 
was also greater and amounted to 1,021,258 lbs., or 172,671 
lbs. more than inthe previous year. 
