SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT HARVEST.
The statistics of the South Australian wheat harvest published by the Adelaide papers show the eeiious nature of the deficiency in the crops of that colony The area sown with wheat was 1.950,000 acres, or at out 7,000 acres mors than in the previous reason. Of this total, however, no less than 320,000 acres were not reaped at all, because there was nothing to reap, or, at most, nothing but what was mown for hay. The average yield of grain from the remainder v.-»s 3 buahelp 109)’ n-r .c!0, g-ving a tola' crop cf 5 161.000 Vu.»hcl* Dedu.-ting requirements for sn.-d mid food in the colony, f surplus of 3*5,900 ton-’ is available for e>pn r t o- 283.0f0 tong less than last years export. Tho average yield for the whole area sown wra 2 A bushels per acre.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1273, 25 June 1886, Page 3
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143SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT HARVEST. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1273, 25 June 1886, Page 3
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