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Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. It is estimated that the 

 aggregate wheat yield for these three provinces will total 87 

 million bushels, being an average yield of 19 bushels per acre 

 that of oats 75 million bushels, an average of 41 bushels per 

 acre: and that of barley 17 million bushels, an average of 31- 

 bushels per acre. 



South Australia. — The official figures for the wheat harvest 

 of 1905-6 give a yield of 20,144,000 bushels from 1,757,000' 

 acres, which is 8,121,000 bushels more than last year. The 

 average yield was 1178 bushels per acre. 



Neiv Zealand, — According to a supplement to the Nezv 

 Zealand Gazette, dated July 3rd, the area of wheat reaped in' 

 the harvest of 1905-6 was 222,000 acres, from which a yield 

 at the rate of 30"6o bushels per acre was obtained, or a total 

 out-turn of 6,799,000 bushels. Last year the yield was- 

 9,124,000 bushels, and that of 1902-3 and of 1903-4 was in- 

 both cases between seven and eight million bushels, so that 

 this year's crop is less than that of the three preceding, 

 yeafs. The yield of oats, barley, and potatoes is also smaller. 



The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture have had under con- 

 sideration the making of Farm Records in connection with 

 „ ^ the Valuation of Farm Covenants and 



with the Norfolk Tenant-Right Valuers' Association. The Com- 

 mittee state that their views as to the making of records of 

 farms upon entry are in accord with those of Mr. R. Hunter 

 Fringle, Assistant Commissioner to the Royal Commission on* 

 Agriculture, 1893, who in his report on the counties of Bedford,. 

 Huntingdon, and Northampton (C. 7842) refers to the necessity 

 of providing some means by which the condition of a farm at 

 the commencement of a tenancy may be ascertained for pur- 

 poses of contrast with the condition at its termination. He 

 observes : — 



" The schedule would form a complete description of the 

 farm. The condition of each field should be fully portrayed,,, 

 due attention being paid to its previous history, treatment, and 

 cropping. Classification on the basis of par value or average- 



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Dilapidations, and they nominated a com- 

 mittee in July, 1905, to discuss the question 



