948
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),
