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Show The World's Wine Butt. The total production of wine in 1900 is estimated at 3,618,700,000 gallons. Of this total 3,403 million gallons was produced in Europe, and 260 million gallons in America, while .the British Empire, with a vastly larger area than Europe, and embracing' every variety of soil and climate, is only represented by a production of some 9,000,000 gallons gal-lons or a four-hundredth part of the whole. France, with a yield of 1,482 million gallons stands easily first as the leading wine producer. Her con-'tribution con-'tribution was about half the yield of all Europe, and considerably more than a third of that of the entire globe. |