New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-26

this table where the returns mort
number Of departments-ss-it is because oats barley
and rye little grown in Of tho extreme south
ern departments that the crop is not worth taking into
account NJ Barral the editor Of the best French agr
cultural organ, the Journal de Agriculture, accepts
these tables tolerably correct does also NJ G. dc
Moihari, the wel-known political economist. am in
debed for the following estimate OF the probable average
yield this year Of wheat, rye, barley and oats to NJ
Barra whose opinion all agricultural subjects has
great weight not only in France but in Great Britain
For convenience in following the French tables employ
the French system OF measurement, merely explaining
that hectare is 247 acres, and hectore Is bushels
a.35 pecks:
Average yield per hectare Of wheat 1884 hectolltres.
Average yield per hectare OF rye 80 hecto,itres'
Average yield per hectare OF barley 1906 hectolitres
Average yield per hectare OF oats hecolitres.
The average yield Of wheat from 1857 to 1870 160
hectotres and Of rye 1928 hectolitres per hectare;
and while there Is probably moro than average crop OF
barley and oats and about average one Of rye-a
somewhat important item in French farming-there Is
every reason to that the wheat crop will be one Of
the wor, that been known since 1885, when the crop
on the average only 1925 hectores per hectare NJ
Barra states that he fears that the total yield Of wheat
this harvest In France must not be reckoned at more
than TO- 100000 Of hectotres about 1873 bushels
In 1853 which the best year In France on record
during the present century for wheat, the total yield
was III 100000 hectores or about s21O0o0oo bushels
The average crop about 900 hectores or about
Ia about 900 bushels This estimate Of Mr. Barral
would give Ms deficit from the average OF 100000
bushes and would that France required to import
nearly 900 bushes to feed her people usual
But II Mr.. Barral's picture Is Q gloomy one, that
drawn by Mr. W. wescher, merchant at Versailles, Is
worse s Mr. Wescher goes 80 far % to anirm that In
his opinion not single department In France Will have
an average crop that In fifteen there VIII be seven
eighths of an average CROP that tysix departments
will only have from half to twohirds Of an average;
that In the departments Of the Disc, Marne,
Yonpe Jura Loiret and seineetOlAe there will only be
the Xubo, EureetLO Charente Ineri
cure. and NieTre there will be only quarter Of the
aver H. Marne, the Moses, and the Ardennes, all
pied by Prussan troops and the lndre tho farmers win
ceptsa az correct there would not be crop Of moro
than 100000 bushels, one-half OF me average;
isn Rs'ss q S dsae viii b found
the ns doubt
buying yasst nSroa9 Tats sr. SsG p pTs.
hsr instead 9; sPs.Sns Il Es sI,1s
to me tc me IT. ,s %A the
II %y sspo far on
given therein speak Of the ;rCg As being sysn 1c mSSh
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thst nearly average crop might be recs9ned nPon:
Ia short f. In my Se SsSs value the
S SSs o. :. '1s rom 100000 70 100000 OF hsctOlitrss on
the Ctr AZ september the Secretary Of tho Jo@r~a Do
FIoicfrs wrote; All the latest regolts received IN
"a our astnate Oh the dene as 900 Of
under thfmark Ths potato disease u spreading rap
idly." l..,. 49,. IN 49,. -. 49,. -
:, Sood crop Of Data and barley. This viii DO much 70
Ssio Trench farmers over the stle Oats have seldom
IA 10 hS A. now in France owing 70 the large con-
sumpton By the German cavalry and artillery horses
~ xsSr, aiso the sane foreign oouAumption st goes
On in diminlshed proportion N ths occupied depart.
msnts On tis crop ana 90 VA 10y s
pnt stsy sssm 70 b mueh diseased, especially In Brit
tiv and Ira northern depaxtmentA The general result
~ s Saryest mag BE- thas sesene1 "A dsfeit varoasy