Commercial.
The amoun of revenue received at the Ou« ■ loan-house ot f.oodo cleared for consumptioi. . was this day, 1,2,0675s 2d. VICTORIAN HARVEST. The * Leader’ estimates the area under wheat ut Victoria at 349,564 acres, and the average - per acre at thirteen bushels, thus giving a total • of- 4,544,332 bushels as the gross return, showing a deficiency of 846,772 bushels as compared with this previous year. Estimating the population of the. Colony at 790,000 and making an ; allowance of. six- bushels per head, the total required for home consumption, according to our contemporary, would be 4,740,000 bushels. . . Allowing also a bushel and a quarter per acre for the seeding of an equal area of land this year, viz , 349,564 acres, the aggregate quantity required for home use would be 5,176,955 bushels. The stock of wheat in the Colony on the Ist January was 345,000 bushels, or its equivalent in flour, of which it is estimated that a third has since been exported to England, leaving a stock on hand of 230,000 bushels. ■ This, added to the estimated yield of the harvest, gives 4,774,332 bushels, 0r402,623 bushels less than the quantity required for home consumption.
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Evening Star, Issue 3519, 3 June 1874, Page 2
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193Commercial. Evening Star, Issue 3519, 3 June 1874, Page 2
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