WEST AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.
•■■••:■ RAPID ADVANCE.Kecent information by .the Minister, f or'. Industrie? and Commerce shows the. rapid, progress T&ich is'.'being made by Western Australia as a wheat growing country. For the 1909-10 season, l-10,15t acres were. sown in wluat' for grain,' an increase 'of 101,143 ados ns compared with 1908-9. The official forecast of this season's crop was 13.4 bushels per acre, equal to, a total yield of 5,978,829 bnsliels, as against 8.6 bushels' Tier acre, yielding. 2,400,823. bushels.last.sSwson.. It was'expected that the quantity of wheat .available;,for 'export from Western Australia', this season would bo 3,681,000 bushels, or 98,598 ton's. the authorities who have been actively promoting land; settlement arid ..agriculture in.the State for several .years .past are. expressing great satisfaction at the' development recorded. ..' . •.•'•'■■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 751, 25 February 1910, Page 8
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125WEST AUSTRALIAN WHEAT. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 751, 25 February 1910, Page 8
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