\Yk learn from Melbourne papers that " the agricultural slatistics nf Victoria just published show an niisaUsfactory .stale of things. Owing to the long drought and ravage of rust there is a falling oil' in wheat crops amounting to no l»ss than 1.:.02,7<J_ bushels, while the area under crop has increased by 93,849 acres. The average yield is only B'7b., the lowest year recorded. The deficiency will be great inasmuch as apart lrom the short yield, the colony has also made large shipments during the present year to youth America aud elsewhere. Already the publication of the statistics has had an effect ou wheat, both iv Melbourne and South Australia. Oats show on increase of 307,511 bushels, or nn average of a fraction o_ scvculceu bushels to the acre."
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Auckland Star, Volume X, Issue 2834, 28 May 1879, Page 2
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