468 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 1 Nov., 1899.] 
THE WORLD’S WHEAT SUPPLY. 
Casues are continually received that in this or that wheat-growing country the 
crops are heavy or light, that they are a failure here or a “ bumper” there. Most 
wheat-growers, however, are wondrously ignorant of the yields of other countries 
than their own. It is with the view of giving an intelligible idea of the actual 
production of various parts of the world that the following figures are given, 
showing the actual yields during 1898 and the estimated yields during 1899 :— 
1898. 1899. 
Bushels. Bushels. 
Austria ae os 46,400,000 4.2,000,000 
Hungary 120,000,000 136,000,000 
Belgium 18,000,000 16,600,000 
Bulgaria 40,000,000 28,000,000 
Denmark ay Jigs 4,000,000 4,000,000 
France s ... 360,000,000 828,000,000 
Germany a ¥; 112,000,000 104,000,000 
Greece os tf 6,000,000 6,000,000. 
Holland mn iy: 4,800,000 5,200,000 
Italy 5 ... 128,000,000 120,000,000 
Portugal 6,000,060 4,000,000 
Roumania ... ..., 56,000,000 26,000,000 
Russia 7". 352,000,000 296,000,000 
Caucasus ee anf 48,000,000 44,000,000 
Servia e", 2. 12,000,000 10,000,000 
Spain eo .f 92,000,000 80,000,000 
Sweden ts =e 4,400,000 4,000,000 
Switzerland ... 4,000,000 4,000,000 
Turkey, Europe 28,000,000 28,000,000 
80,000,000 66,000,000 
United Kingdom 
1,521,600,000 _—...._:1,855,200,000 
Total Europe 
——_ ——_ 
Algeria oD ae 20,000,000 12,000,000 
Tunis if or 6,000,000 8,000,000 
Argentina 80,000,000 72,000,000 
Australasia 52,000,000 52,000,000 
Asia Minor ... 5 40,000,000 48,000,000 
Canada =: Re. 68,000,000 4,000,000 
Cape Colony ... 4,400,000 wh 4,000,000 
Chili... is: ox 16,000,000 eer 16,000,0U0 
Egypt 55 eh 10,000,000 #3 10,000,000 
India 56 248,000,000 232,000,000 
Persia 20,000,000 20,000,000 
Syriah esate 12,100,000 12,000,000 
U.S. America ... 696,000,000 520,000,000 
Uruguay nee 12,000,000 12,000,000 
Mexico : 12,000,000 12,000,000 
Total . 1,300,400,000 1,090,000,000 
The world ... . 2,822,000,000 2,445,200,000 
_ The Australasian figures for 1899 are given as the same as those for 1898 
in order to make the returns approximately complete. These returns have just 
come forward by mail from London, being the first official estimate published on 
the authority of ‘‘ Beerbohm.” 
Great Brrrarn produces as muchfwheat as Argentina, and about twice as much 
as Australia, despite all we hear of her decadent agricultural industries. This 
year her wheat crop is estimated at between 93 and 10 millions of quarters, or 
about 75,000,000) to 80,000,000 bushels.— Farm and Dairy. 
