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GERMANY.

Statement showing the value of declared exports, by consular districts, from Germany to the United States for the year ending September 30, 1877. 1.-STATEMENT SHOWING THE VALUE OF THE DECLARED EXPORTS FROM THE DISTRICT OF THE CONSULATE-GENERAL AT BERLIN, INCLUDING THE DISTRICTS OF THE CONSULATES AT BARMEN, BERLIN, BREMEN, BRUNSWICK, CHEMNITZ, DRESDEN, HAMBURG, AND LEIPSIC.*

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* Transmitted to the Department of State by the vice-consul-general at Berlin. NOTE. Declared exports to the United States from Germany continued on next page.

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Statement showing the value of declared exports from Germany to the United States for the year ending September 30, 1877-Continued.

2.-STATEMENT SHOWING THE VALUE OF DECLARED EXPORTS FROM THE CONSULATE-GENERAL AT FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, INCLUDING THE CONSULAR DISTRICTS OF COLOGNE, FRANKFORT, MANNHEIM, MUNICH, NUREMBERG, SONNEBERG, AND STUTTGART. *

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+ Transmitted by the consul-general at Frankfort-on-the-Main.

BERLIN.

NOVEMBER 26, 1877. (Received December 11.)

Report upon the agriculture and mines of Prussia.

TILLAGE AND HARVESTS.

The area under tillage in Prussia, in the year 1875, was estimated at 66,537,696 acres, of which about 10 per cent. were under wheat, 24 per cent. under rye, 8 per cent. under barley, 16 per cent. under oats, 3 per cent. under rape and beets, and 12 per cent. under potatoes. In the years 1874 and 1875, the harvest yields of the entire monarchy amounted, in tons of 2,000 pounds, as follows:

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If already, according to this, the harvest of the year 1875, in Prussia, proved to be far short of those immediately preceding it, as also of the average year, the year 1876 has proved still less satisfactory.

According to the estimates and calculations made by the agricultural central associations, the latter amounted relatively in per cent., taking 100 as an average harvest, in absolute numbers, to the following quantities:

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These figures, which, of course, can only claim to be approximately correct, show that the yields in wheat, rye, and potatoes fall beneath those even of the preceding year; whereas barley, oats, rape, and sugarbeets have experienced an increase, though only a slight one. The harvest may, accordingly, be set down on the average as a bad and un. satisfactory one. The harvest, everywhere in Northern Germany, has turned out similar to that in Prussia, while South Germany cannot show more favorable results. The Bavarian harvest yielded, for almost all cereals, a very good medium crop in quantity, which result may be also accepted in general for the remaining states of South Germany. The deficit, moreover, in quantity was almost everywhere equalized by the excellent quality of the crop in some measure.

With such results it is explicable that an increased dependence of the German corn trade upon foreign markets for 1876 is to be recorded.

* Wispels of 2,400 pounds.

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