_ expected to produce 10,000,000 bushels, which will give a surplus for exp: 
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Ils.; selected, 10s. 6d.; seconds, 9s. Hungarian, blues, 8s. 9d:; reds, 6s, | 
Austrian, blues, 7s. 9d.; reds, 6s. 6d. Russians, best, 7s. 6d.; ordinary, 65° 
7s. Danish, 9s., 14s. 7H 
Under the heading “‘ Eggs from Australia,” the Farmer and Stockbttt | 
says:—At last it has come. ‘The country the furthest removed from us 
round world has started supplying us with eggs. Last week mention was") 
in the “F. and S.” as to the increase in the value of eggs imported into! 
country this present year, and now I read of an experimental consignment” } 
Australia. A steamer has sailed carrying, among other cargo, a million % 
from Melbourne to London. In Melbourne, it seems, eggs are now sella 
7d. a dozen, and the exporters believe the venture will be profitable. I vel", 
to doubt it. Very tolerable cooking eggs can be bought in London or 
country towns now for Id. apiece. ‘l'here are, of course, foreign or pre 
English eggs. It is doubtful if the Australian eges will retail even a 
as Id. each, unless they are of extra good size. For the different 
exporters have to pack the eggs, ship them for a six weeks’ journey in 4 
chamber on shipboard, and sell them in this country to buyers who, 1 
have to sell them to customers who, it is doubtful, will give 1d. each for 
It is certainly wonderfully enterprising , but how can it answer? Inciden™ 
the fact we have paid over four millions for foreign eggs alone in ten Mm 
points to the importance of eggs as an article of diet. 
THE WHEAT CROP OF 1899-1900. 
Aut over Australia (says the Queensland Mercantile Gazette), with the exce) 
only of Queensland, the harvest is expected to give a bountiful return 1) 
farmer. The Mother Colony is estimated to produce 18,250,000 bushels, 14) 
will leave a surplus for export of about 3,000,000 bushels. In Victor a) 
yield is not quite equal to last year, but a surplus is expected of about 12,000, 
bushels. South Australia, with the small average of 5 bushels to the a¢ 
about 6,500,000 bushels. The other large wheat-producing country ? 
southern hemisphere is the Argentine, where the crop this season is heal! 
surplus of 75,000,000 bushels being expected. E 
In Queensland, only a few months ago, it was confidently expected 4 
this season’s crop would reach nearly 2,000,000 bushels, but the very *®: 
frosts which visited the Downs in October caused widespread destru@), 
Large areas were completely destroyed, and the mowing machines ha¢™, 
put in the fields in order to prevent a total loss. In some places, howevéel 
good yields are expected, principally in the Warwick district, where we }© 
some farmers having reaped as much as 30 to 40 bushels to the acre. It!) 
difficult to estimate the Queensland wheat crops. The Government ma i 
for arriving at the figures is, as we have pointed out before, very imp® all 
Not only is the information not available until too late in the year to be of ™ J 
but when it is forthcoming it is not very reliable. «all 
The statistical information of the southern colonies was sufficl™) 
well advanced to be published early this month while practically nothing ® “y 
known of the result of the wheat harvest of this colony, nor is it likely ™™ | 
for some months. Bail! 
The Warwick Argus a short time ago estimated the crops of the wari 
district to total about 450,000 bushels. Last year, according to the ret 
the Registrar-General, the Warwick district contributed rather less than "yy 
the total yield of wheat of the Southern division, so if the result is the sa 
year the total crop of wheat would be about 1,000,000 bushels. We are 2 
to think, however, that the quantity of wheat available for flour this seas? 
not much exceed 750,000 bushels. This quantity will be sufficient to ©), 
food for the entire population of the districts of Darling Downs, Ma ast! 
Warrego, and South Gregory, and leave about 350,000 bushels to come ® 
the Main Range, 
