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problem. In the Agricultural Gazette for New South 

 Wales of November 2nd, 1914, the cost of growing wheat 

 and harvesting it by methods similar to those of New 

 Zealand (though less intensive), is estimated at 3 5s. 

 per acre. The items are as follows : 



TABLE XXXV. 

 COST OF PBODUCTION. 



Estimate in. 



s. d. 



Ploughing once . . . . . 10 3 



Harrowing twice, at I/- per acre 

 Cultivating once 

 Drilling 



Seed, 60 Ibs. per acre, at 5/- per bush. 

 Superphosphate, $ cwt., at 5/- per cwt. . . 026 



Pickling seed, at 3d. per acre 



Cutting with binder 



Twine, 5 Ib. per acre, at 6d. per Ib. 



Stooking for grain 



Carting and stacking 



7 bags at 6/- per doz. 



Threshing at 1/6 per bag 



020 

 026 

 018 

 050 



003 

 050 

 026 

 016 

 090 

 036 

 10 6 



Total cost of growing and harvesting . . 2 16 2 



Eent, one year 



Cartage to rail., 20 bush, at 2Jd. per bush. 



Total . . . . 3 5 11 



Yield per acre, 20 bushels 

 Cost per bushel, 3s. 3d. 



But the most reliable estimate under notice at present 

 is one recently made at the Central Research Farm, 

 Werribee, Victoria. An excellent account of this is given 

 in two articles in the Victorian Journal of Agriculture, 

 in the numbers for July, 1915, and May, 1916. Details 

 are not given here, but it is sufficient to say that the 

 operations are quite similar to those undertaken in New 

 Zealand, and that the most careful account has been 



