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in Victoria in 1899-1900, the total area from which wheat was 
harvested was 2,162,800 acres, and the produce is estimated 
to have amounted to 15,205,000 bushels, or an average yield 
of 7°03 bushels per acre. In the previous year, the area was 
returned at 2,154,200 acres, and the produce at 19,581,300 
bushels, or a little over 9 bushels per acre. The yield this 
year is expected to leave abcut 6} million bushels available 
for export. | 
The principal crop other than wheat in Victoria is oats, 
and the area devoted to this cereal was 271,100 acres in the 
current season, the production amounting to 6,111,000 bushels, 
or an average of 22} bushels per acre. Barley was sown on 
about 80,000 acres, of which 66,000 acres yielded 1,197,000 
bushels, available for malting purposes. 
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT HARVEST OF 1899-1900. 
The Government Statist of South Australia has recently 
issued a return showing the acreage and yield of wheat in 
that Colony in the current season 1899-1900. The area 
sown for grain amounted to 1,821,100 acres, or about 
32,300 acres more than last year ; the production, however, was 
less, only averaging 4°64 bushels per acre as compared with 
491 bushels in 1898-99, thus giving a total yield of 8,453,100 
bushels for the present year against 8,778,900 bushels last 
year. In addition there were also 311,400 acres of wheat 
cut green tor hay. 

CROSSE ANDE LIVE SOCK IN ENEPWr SOULE \WIALES. 
The Government Statist of New South Wales has published 
the preliminary tables of the agricultural and live stock 
statistics of that Colony for the year ended March, 1900, from 
which it appears that the total area under crops was 2,439,000 
acres. About 58 per cent. of this area was devoted to wheat, 
which occupied 3,422,000 acres and produced 13,586,300 
bushels at 94 bushels per acre. ‘This was in addition to 
414,660 acres of wheat cut for hay. Maize occupied 214,350 
acres and is estimated to have produced 6,248,100 bushels. 
The total grain area under oats, barley, rye and millet was 
