THE WORLD'S PRODUCTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 162, 28 March 1918, Page 8

THE WORLD'S PRODUCTS

INTERESTING STATISTICS. The. International Institute of Agristatistics in a pamphlet entitlefl "Ten Years of - Agriculture Throughout the World." Extracts are':—'. ' We find that the ascertainable'annua] yield of wheat throughout tho world exceeds a thousand million quintals, • and represents at present value more than two thousand millions sterling.

The yield of maize is nearly as largo ' ns that of wheat, and is' worth one thousand millions sterling, while the . aggregate value of the &k chief cereals (wheat,-rye; barley, oats, maize, ami ; rice) is not less than -six thousand millions sterling, or thirty billions of dollars, yearly. • The yield of potatoes is over fifteen million quintals, and that of sugar beet, is.more than five hundred million quintals. Every year the world has at dis- ' posal a total'of 150 million quintals of beet and cane sugar, nearly 150 million hectolitres of wine, ten million quintals, of coffee-, more than 8 millions of leaf tobacco, nearly one million quintals of hops.' ""■-' Textile industries account', annually for nearly 50 million quintals of ootton, ■ fi millions of flax, .7 millions of hemp. Tvhile silkworm breeders in.Europe and 'Asia deliver to the trade Siore than 200 millions in ' cocoons; ' The rawmaterial ''for vegetable oils comprises '•yearly throughout the world an aggregate of 30 million quintals of olives and a- similar quantity of linseed, 4 millions of hemp,seed, and-5 millions of rape seed. '•'.. _ . ■"'.;' v . Turning to live stock, we find that for each of tho ten years comprised the ,-■ 'number's of horses, asses, cattle, sheep, pigs, etc., in 82 countries taken singly, and : afterwards reckoned out as compared with each thousand inhabitants of tho country, both at the opening and at the.close of the period under review. The results reached in these tables are of the greatest, interest. It appears that-Jn, Uruguay,there :_are eight head of-cattle, to each inhabitant, in Argentine more than four head, in Australia mor,e than two head., and throughout .South America about two-head per inhabitant, while in the United States and Canada there is one head of cattle per person,-and iu Europe only one to two persons. The consumption of wheat per.head of population is extremely large in'-Aus-tralia, in Canada, in France, in Argentina, etc., while it is very limited in Japan, British India, Egypt, Sweden, pote., as the.inhabitants.of these countries live chiefly upon rice, maize, or other articles of food.' : .