1116 TURKEY AND TRIBUTARY STATES: — EGYPT
The total niimljer of date trees which yield fruit or seed is about 3,452,674. Cattle and farm animals, ineludinir horses and camels, number 1,668,860.
The lollowini^ table shows (in feddans) the area of the several crops in 1890 and 1891 :—
—
1890
1891
—
1890
1891
Feddans
Feddans
Feddans
Feddans
Wheat, .
1,165,676
1,215,841
Water - melons,
Maize and durrah .
1,559,906
1,530,983
melons.
44,012
43,180
Clover
875,761
820,263
, Lupins, smut .
13,141
17,355
Cotton
864,302
871,241
Tobacco .
860
—
Beans
628,211
643,751
Peas, &c.
8,819
7,169
Barley
456,075
460,330
Flax, henna, indigo
6,050
5,829
Lentils
77,216
75,75(i
j Castor plant, sesame
14,133
9,664
Rice
' Helbe ' (Fenugreek)
148,095
167,164
'
133,484
139,560
Vegetables, iiotatoes
37,244
34.542
Total crops
6,130,701
6,145,849
Sugar-cane
65,505
64,539
Area cultivated
5,022,701
' Guilbane ' (Chick-
ling vetch) .
32,211
38,702
Double cultivation .
1
1,108,000
—
Commerce.
The exterior com kinds of merchandise
inerce of Egypt, comprising imports and exports , is given at the following figures for live years : —
of all
Year
Imports
Exports £E
Totals
£E
1893
8,718,735
12,789,687
21,508,422
1894
9,266,116
11,892,875
21,158,991
1895
8,389.933
12,632,450
21,022,383
1896
9,828,604
13,232,108
23,060,712
1897
10,603,672
12,321,220
22,924,892
The movement of specie during the same period has been —
Year
1
Imports
Exports
1
£E
£E
1893 1
2,946,674
3,517,152
1894 I
1,995,676
1,816,256
1895
4,319,265
2,322,190
1896
3,720,425
1,826,160 i
1897
2,921,722
2,369,479 i
i
The following table shows the value of the commercial intercourse of Egypt (exclusive of tobacco imports) with different foreign countries foy three years ; —
