In the absence of official data with regard to the cereal crops Russia as a whole, the Internation al Institute of Agriculture (Rome) considers it desirable to publish the subjoined information, compiled from data obtained by a British mission despatched to South Russia to study economic conditions, especially with respect to the cereal production of that region.
The production of wheat in the Ukraine, including Bessarabia, ur the year 1919 is estimated of 331,030,000 bushels, with stocks of the previous harvests amounting to 190,374,000 bushels. For purposes of comparison the figures published by the Russian Imperial Government in 1916 and previous yeats follow: 1916, 250,217,000; 1915, 232,061,000; 1914, 199,647,000; and average from 1909 to 1913, 269,925,-
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