HER LARGEST ON RECORD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 December 1909, Page 8

HER LARGEST ON RECORD.

AUSTRALIA'S WHEAT , Australia is now harvesting her largest wheat crop on,record Her best crjp hitherto was that o£ 10034, When 72,149,000 budicls iv«io obtained , Her worst (crop of recent times was that of 1302-3, i wamondfir-g to 12„178,000 The crop this , year'is'climated at 82,614,000 bushels Of this quantity 51,000,000 bushels mil be available Jor export This is ten , times greater than New Zealand's ex-_ portable surplus Australia gets not' one-half of New Zealand's average yield per acre, and hor area under wheat must 'be ov«r 25 times greater than Vhit iu 'New Zealand. This way of looking at rih» question shovs how vastly superior is the wheat interest in Australia over jits rolatrvo interest in Now Zealand The ifael that the Australian can make wheat ;pav with snch small yields per acre is a. circumstance that should cause the i Now Zealander \o sit down and do some thinking He will probably como to the conclusion that the South Australian certainly could not make his 11-bushel crop of wheat pay on land which co3t XSO a per acie The dearness of New Zealand L land has a lot to answer for. One other Hfj .conclusion that follows from this comv{[ panson of New Zealand'and Australian l{j r wheat la that the prosperity of the othor .farnting'indubtnes whioh New Zealand is "fostering' must bo exceedingly powerful when it can mako us regard with indif- ,, ioience the temptations of our 35-bushel wheat crop? The following table shows 1 "the distribution and volume'■of the Aus--1 tralian .crops of some recent jears — ,V. i 1002-3 1903-4 190910. </ Est t i " -Bushels Bushels Bushels NSW. , ..v 1,5&5,000 27,334,000.25,600,000 'Vic ...\~ - (2,589,080 28,526,000 28 535,000 SA '... 6,335,000 13,203,000 20,000,000 ■ffA . i.. 980,000 1,876,0C0 5,979,000 ;Qu G.OOO 2,437,000 «ay ( Tas 877,000 767,000 2,500,000 1 i 12,378,000 71,149,000 82,614,000 'Thef' ten years' average for the six States in the ordei named above is — 15,716,000, 17,888,000, 13,513,000, 1,805,000, 1,224,000, and, 825,000 bushels „„/ «' r In We=t Australia, agriculture has-de-,Tolopod rapidl}, ind a few 1 vears henco , that State bids fair to be'a largo wheat producer and exporter Tho , average *' yields are placed at 111 bushels m New South Wales, 13 6 bushels in Victoria, 13 4 bushels in West Australia, and it , bushels in South Australia, the Austral Jian average being about 13 bushels. Taking the Australian consumption at 31,6OO,oOo~busheUj, this would leave 51,000,000 bushels 1 for etport, worth, at 4» a , bushel, over .610,000,000 to Australia. TakingS,+ho farmers' (avcrago at 3s Bd. a crop of 82,600,000 bushels i would r aggiegafo about ,£15,150,000, Which is far ;and away in excess of any crop thej have 'hitherto scoured It has to be borne iu >mmd that the present price is an excapnonilly paying one, and should serve to stimulate the lndtfstrj But that ap- ,_ ©bos nth oven greater for/e to New Zealand with hei 35 bushel average r