AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 156, 27 March 1919, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTS

DECLINE IN WOOL. WHEAT, AND : ;■ "•-.. GOLD YIELDS. ■..;:;. '. -The' estimated total yield of the:' Co m: inonwealth wheat harvest'in 1918-19 is 40,000,000 bushels short of tho yield for 1917-18. With tho exception. of West Australia and Tnsmnnia, the quarterly .summary of statistics estimates a sub- . stantial drop in every State. ,i . .'.'iThe 1 decline expected in. Now, South : Wales is moro than 50 per cent., from 7,000,000 bnshelSi -West. Australia ia toria, fr0m"37,737,000 to 24',59G,000."50uth Australia's decline is estimated at 7,000,000,000 : bushels, .West Australia is expected to advance from 9,303,000 to 10,854,000, nnd Tasmania a matter of 25,000 bushels. Queensland, which pro l . ■ duced ■• a ■ million ■ , bnsliels'. last year, has not yet furnished air estimate.

The complete figures for 1917-18 show that'tho.average yield.per acre of wheat; throughout the Commonwealth -was 11.87 :bushels,' oats 16.98 bushels,'and- sugartons per acre. .. '' . ■;

''■'AVool figures,'in' so- far -as (hey are complete, show that Queensland .declined 15,000,0001b. in ' comp'afisdri ■ 'with '• 1917, dropping from 102,000,000 . to 87,000,000. South Australia' advanced from 35,000,000 lb. to .10,600,0001b. in 1918, and West Australia from 34,000,0001b.' to '39,000.0001b:. while Tasmania hovers in the region of 10,000,0001b. ■■':..■}.:■ -».-.'

The gold'production (exclusive of the Northern Territory, which consumes .rather than produces «old) ehows a further drop-from t0'dE5,42i;131. ;