The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita583recl Year: 1883 30 to .50 per cent. doubled, now amounting to about 173,000,000 bushels. In Lithuania and White Russia they are chiefly used in the distillation of spirits, which are elsewhere made more commonly from rye. The tobacco crop has also considerably increased of late years, and is now valued at £480,000. Wine is grown mainly in the south, and three-fourlhs of the yield come from districts beyond the natural limits of Europe, the Terek and Kuban valleys, and especially' Kakhetia, on the southern slope
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita583recl Year: 1883 30 to .50 per cent. doubled, now amounting to about 173,000,000 bushels. In Lithuania and White Russia they are chiefly used in the distillation of spirits, which are elsewhere made more commonly from rye. The tobacco crop has also considerably increased of late years, and is now valued at £480,000. Wine is grown mainly in the south, and three-fourlhs of the yield come from districts beyond the natural limits of Europe, the Terek and Kuban valleys, and especially' Kakhetia, on the southern slopes of the Caucasus. In European Russia proper the vine flourishes only in Bessarabia, on the shores of the Dniester liman, in the Crimea, on the Lower Don, and to a small extent in Kherson. The limits of its cultivation have cer- I
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