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RUSSIA

-

Wlieat

Rye

Barley

Oats

Variousi

Total

Potatoes

1

1,000

1,000

1,000

1,000

1,000

1,000

1,000

tons

tons

tons

tons

tons

tons

tons

European Russia, 1895.

7,770

17,813

4,471

9,556

3,291

42,900

14,554

,, ,, 1896.

7,986

17,392

4,433

9,485

4,334

43,630

16,630

1897.

6,332

14,080

4,325

7,757

3,771

36,277

15,624 :

Poland, 1895.

462

1,358

338

614

188

2,881

6,117 1

lS9ti.

518

1,534

356

678

201

3,287

6,036

1897.

473

1,345 1,000

340

590 1,000

202 1,000

2,950 1,000

5,789 1,000 1

1,000

1,000

quarters

quarters

quarters

quarters

(juarters quarters

quarters

North Caucasia,2 1895.

8,456

579

2,635

1,679

2,568 15.917

276

1896.

5,707

1,334

2,493

1,388

2,792 13,714

365

1897.

—

—

—

—

— 9,321

—

Siberia,^ 189-t

3,917

2,840

618

4,870

410 12,655

—

1895

3,807

2,495

624

4,983

305 ; 12,214

309 i

„ 1896

4,464

2,679

775

6,907

447

15,272

368

Turkestan'4, 1895.

982

88

306

40

427

1,843

56

1896.

1,715

126

407

115

1,017

3,380

38

Transcaucasia, 1897

5,535

24

2,494

22

3,661

11,736

174

1 Mixed rye and wheat, buckwheat, millet, Indian corn and peas. '- Provinces Kuban, Stavropol, and Terek.

3 Provinces Irkutsk, Tobolsk, Tomsk, and Yeniseisk.

4 Provinces Akmolinsk, Semipalatinsk, Semirechensk, and Turgai.

The crop in 1898 was a medium one, very unequal, resulting in a great scarcity in the central provinces.

Of special cultures there were, in European Russia in 1897, 8,358,000 acres under flax (290,000 tons of flax fibre and 645,000 tons of linseed), 2,241,000 acres under hemp (301,500 tons of fibre and 370,000 tons liempseed), about 650,000 cwt. of hops are gathered every year.

The amount of hay gathered in 1897 attained 33,208,000 tons in European Russia, out of which 1,805,000 tons in Poland, and 10,200,000 tons in West Siberia and North Caucasia.

In 1895 128,480 acres were under tobacco in Russia, Siberia, and Caucasia, yielding about 1,263,400 cwt, as against 1,287,500 cwt. (120,025 acres) in 1890. There were in 1892 no less than 350 tobacco factories, which manu- factured no less than 1,073,080 cwt. of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, &c. Under vineyards there were about 16,000,000 acres, but only 361,000 acres were under proper culture. The yield was 4,550,000 gallons, of which 150,000 were produced in Crimea.

The cotton crops in Turkestan which covered, in 1888, 214,115 acres, and yielded 325,148 cwt. of raw cotton, one half of which was the American, and the other half the local cotton tree, attained in 1895 to 469,800 acres, chiefly in Ferganah (351,000 acres), and yielding over 840,000 cwt. of purified cotton (2,080,000 cwt. of raw cotton). Khiva and Bokhara supply annually about 322,000 cwt. Attempts at raising cotton have also been made in Trans- caucasia, the crop of 1891 attaining 2,900 cwt. in Elisabethpol, and 200,000 cwt. in Erivan ; 9,833 acres were under cotton trees in 1892. Nearly 2,670,000 cwt. of rice are grown every year in Turkestan, and about 330,000 cwt. of cocoon silk are obtained.

In 1888 Russia in Europe (without Poland) had 19,633,340 horses, 24,609,260 horned cattle, 44,465,450 sheep (about 9 "5 millions of fine breeds),