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Owing to the small population and relatively large exports, 

 Australasia, producing a wheat crop of 88,800,000 bushels, 

 8,000,000 of which comes from New Zealand, is almost as 

 important in the markets of importing countries as India 

 with a crop of 368,000,000 bushels. Australasia exports 

 nearly half of its total yield, whereas India, after feeding 

 her teeming millions, has little left for export, ffi Because of 

 the severe droughts, Australia is almost as uncertain in 

 the matter of crops as India. During the last two decades, 

 Australia has had a number of crop failures which made 

 it necessary to import wheat. W Australia exports consider- 

 able flour, as well as wheat, to South Africa. However, 

 the greater part of the wheat export goes to the United 

 Kingdom; Germany, France, and Belgium also receive 

 some. In April, Australian grain shipments begin to 

 arrive in Europe, shipments from Argentina having 

 arrived a month earlier. Seeding time in Aus 

 tralia begins in May and continues through 

 June, while December is the harvest month; 

 1 New Zealand, which is farther south, 

 the harvest comes six weeks later. 



One hundred nln^. 



