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Show YEAR BOOK GIVES FACTS ON CEREALS Italian International Institute of Agriculture Agri-culture Issues Intensely Interesting Interest-ing Statistics. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) ROME. Jan. 2.". Thirty billion dollars' worth of the six chief cereals used for food wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn and rice is annualiv produced by the farmers farm-ers of the world, according to the Year Book Just issued here bv the International Interna-tional Institute of Agriculture. We find." declared the author of the book, "that the ascertainable yield of wheat th'rouehout the world exceeds a thousand million quintals (one quintal neiu" .i.57 bushels) and represents a nresent value of mure than f2.O0O.00O.u0n. The vield of maize Is nearly as lartre as that of wiieat and Is worth 1.0O0.CK0.Joo. "The vlel.l of potatoes is over fifteen hundred "million quintals and of beet su-qar su-qar more than 5"0.00.0oo quintals. Kv-j erv vear the world has at its disposal a total' of 160.000,000 quintals of wine, 10 00" "00 quintals of coffee, more than j liuO.O'Xi of leaf tobacco, and nearly I'lHO.OOO quintals of hops." The vast consumption of coffee, wine and lo'-'acco mav be understood when it is estimated that their total value ei-cee ei-cee Is I.OOO.OOO.vOO. Comparing the number of cattle, hordes mules, sheep, hogs, etc.. to the world's population, the institute estimates esti-mates that Urucuay has eisht head of livestock to eacli Inhabitant. Argentina more than four bead. Australia more than two the United States and Canada one head per person, and Europe only one for two persons. |