The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

400 RUSSIA IN EUROPE.seed, the total yield of flux being estimated at about £12,000,000, and of hemp£4,000,000.The cultivation of beet has also been greatly developed, the quantity producednow amounting to nearly one-fifth of the European crop. Of this the governmentof Kiev alone raises one-fourth, or about 2,800,000 tons. The Russian supplygenerally equals that of Austria-Hungary, thus ranking next to France andGermany. The annual value of the crop is estimated at nearly £2,000,000.Since the middle of the century the production of potatoes has been nearlyFig. 246. Arrears of Payment fok the Redemption of the Land in the yariocs ProvincesDURING THE TEN YEARS FROM 1862 TO 1873.According to Wilson.doubled, now amounting to about 173,000,000 bushels. In Lithuania and "WhiteRussia they are chiefly used in the distillation of spirits, which are elsewheremade more commonly from rye. The tobacco crop has also considerably increasedof late years, and is now valued at £480,000. "Wine is grown mainly in thesouth, and three-fourths of the yield come from districts beyond the naturallimits of Europe, the Terek and Kuban valleys, and especially Kakhetia, on thesouthern slopes of the Caucasus. In European Russia proper the vine flourishesonly in Bessarabia, on the shores of the Dniester liman, in the Crimea, on the LowerDon, and to a small extent in Kherson. The limits of its cultivation have cer-