in the eastern States of the Commonwealth it is said the land seeded 

 may be somewhat curtailed. In Western Australia wheat culture is 

 likely again to undergo extension. 



NEW ZEALAND. 



The official preliminary estimate of the yields of grain for the 

 current season, with a comparison of the actual yields for the pre- 

 vious season, is given below : 



Area and production oj grain in New Zealand. 



1 Winchester bushels reduced from imperial bushels. 



BRITISH INDIA. 



Harvest of wheat and oil seeds, now nearing an end, has been 

 favored by good weather, excepting occasional heavy rains and high 

 winds in the United Provinces and the Punjab; prospects of a 

 bumper crop in this, in point of area, the third largest wheat-pro- 

 ducing country of the world, are well maintained. The acreage 

 exceeds all previous records but one. The highest yield in the his- 

 tory of the country was 360,000,000 bushels in 1904, out of which 

 there were exported 80,000,000 bushels. The statistical history of 

 the production and exportation of wheat for the past few years is as 

 below: 



Production and exports of wheat in British India. 



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1 Preliminary estimate. 



* Data not yet available. 



