THE WORLD’S GRAIN CROPS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 639, 7 June 1921, Page 10

THE WORLD’S GRAIN CROPS.

Figures relative to area cropped with differsent classes of grain indicate that there should be no shortage of foodstuffs during the next twelve months, at all events in those countries that have the wherewithal to buy. A return published by the International .Agricultural Institute of Romo shows that the wheat area for 1920-21 season in Argentina, the Union of South Africa and Australia, is estimated at 128 per cent, of the 1919-29 acreage, and 102 per cent, of the average of the first five previous years, while the' production of wheat for 1920 in Bulgaria, Spain, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada United States, Guatemala, India, Algeria, Egypt, and Tunis is estitmated at quite as large a yield as last year. In the barley-producing countries other than Great Britain, and including Canada and the United States, the yield is 106 per cent, of last year, and’9l per cent, of the average, and of oats 119 per cent, of last year, and 108 per cent, of the average. Maize is 107 per cent, of last year, and 113 per cent, of the average; rice, 127 per cent, of 1919, and 154 per cent, of the average; linseed, 168 per cent, of last year and 102 per cent of the average.