INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8349, 8 February 1913, Page 2

INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE

BULLETIN OF STATISTICS.—DECEMBER, 1912. The December number of the Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics, edited under the direction of Professor Umberto Ricci, has just .been issued by the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome. With regard to the next cereal harvests in the countries of the Southern Hemisphere this bulletin estimates the production of wheat in Australia at 21,522,000 quintals against 19,550,137 quintals produced in 1911-12, showing an increase therefore of 10 per cent. The estimate of the production in the other countries of the Southern Hemisphere is not yet known. The bulletin afterwards gives once more the statistical tables concerning the crops of 1912 in the countries of the Northern Hemisphere. In these tables the most important additions made to the figures for last month concern the cereal production in Germany, Austria and Scotland, the production of sugarbeets in France, that of wine in France and Algeria, and of cotton in the United States and India. With the addition of these new figures the total results of the harvests of 1912 in the countries of the Northern Hemisphere are as follows: . Wheat, Bye, Barley, Oats.—The total production of wheat in 1912 in the following countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, Franco, Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg Norway, Netherlands, Roumania, Russia in Europe, Switzerland : Canada, United States; India, Japan, Russia in Asia: Algeria, Egypt, Tunis,- is estimated at 917,204,653 quintals against 853,111,902 in 1911. showing an increase of 6.9 per cent; that of rye (the same countries except Great Britain, India, Japan, Egypt, and Tunis) at 473,651,260 quintals against 393.173,349. showing an increase of 20.5 per ceati barley (samp countries as for

wheat, except India) at 315,989,408 quintals, against 297,808,839. showing an increase of 0.1 per cent, and oats (same _ countries as for wheat, except India, and Egypt) at i>5t3,572,549 -QHijitals against 545,262,538 ,n 1911, showing'' an increase of 20.4 per cent. Maize.—The total production in the following countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, Kingdom of Hungary, Italy, Houmania, Russia in Europe, Switzerland; Canada, United States; Japan, Russia in Asia ; Algeria, Egypt, Tunis, for 1912 is estimated at 974,367,430 quintals, against 799,967,734 quintals in 1911. That is to say the production in 1912 shows an increase of 21.8 per cent. Rice.—The most important modifications made in tho figures published last month concern the production of Spain, which is estimated at 2,442,260 quintals in 1912, against 642,408 in 1911, and that of Japan, which is calculated at 70,541,000 quintals in 1912, against 73,665,208 in 1911. Sugarheet.—The total production in 1912 in the following countries, Prussia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, France, Croatia-Slavonia, Italy, Roumania. Russia in Europe, Sweden ; Canada, is estimated at 395,856,549 quintals against 291,831,910 in 1911, allowing an increase of 35.9 per cent. Wine.—The total production in 1912 in the following countries: Spain, France, Italy, Luxemburg, Houmania, Switzerland; Algeria, Tunis, is estimated at 126,453,886 hectolitres, against 113,560,071 m 1911, showing an increase of 11.4 per cent. Cotton.—The production in tho United States in 1912 is estimate dat 29,,992,890 quintals, against 34,048,416 in 1911 and that of India at 7,856,222 quintals, against 5,599,588 in 1911. The total production in the following countries: United States ; India, Japan, Egypt, in 1912 is estimated at 41,353,525 quintals, against 42,982,533 in 1911, showing a decrease of 3.8 per cent. The bulletin ends with some tables showing tho results of tho most recent live-stock statistics in Sweden, Argentine, Australia and New Zealand.