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The first instalment of the Victorian offioial agricultural statistics show t.htt the total yield of wheat is 12,048,879 bushels from 1,044 348 aorets of land, an average of nearly ll£ bushels per acre, over two bußhels a better average than last year. The whole quantity m excess of bat year is 2,878,341 bushels, though the area under wheat is 24.266 acres Ibbs The surplus will probably be between four or five million bushels. Oats show 4,310,538 baahels from 186.686 aore/>, or •n average of 23 bushels per "acre Potatoes, 173,286 tons from 50,055 acres, the average being 3£ ton" par acre. Hay, 478 597 tons from 443,252 acres, an average of " Ilttla over one ton per acre The areas and aIBO the yields of potatoes and hay are greater this year than were ever before recorded.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1527, 7 April 1887, Page 3
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137UNKNWON Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1527, 7 April 1887, Page 3
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