252 Wheat Export of New South Wales. 



exports has to be carted from the railhead to the store, and 

 sometimes again from the store to the wharf, before a vessel 

 can be loaded. Every such handling entails a charge of from 

 Jd. to id. per bushel of wheat. Whether it will be decided to 

 adopt the modern American system of handling wheat in 

 bulk, by means of grain elevators and specially -fitted ships, 

 or whether the system of handling it in bags, as at present, 

 be allowed to continue, it is recognised that if New South 

 Wales is to take a prominent place on European markets as 

 a wheat exporter, some proper system of cleaning and grading 

 must be adopted. At present the extent of land sown with 

 wheat in New South Wales is about 1,476,000 acres, but the 

 available area of land suitable for the production of this 

 cereal in the colony is estimated at between 20,000,000 and 

 25,000,000 acres, which even under a rough and ready 

 pioneer system of cultivation would produce an enormous 

 quantity of grain for export if this should prove remunerative. 



[Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, ,] 



