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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 166, 12 January 1895, Page 2

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(PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION). Sydney, Tins Day. The Sydney Truth published a series of articles entitled " John Bull and His Calf," which purposed to be advance proofs of Max O'Rell's new book on the colonies. M. Blouet writes from New York to the Melbourne Argus denying their authorship, and stating that he will deal wjth the perpetrators on his return to England. The area under English barley is greatly in excess of last year's area. The estimated yield is 975,000 bushels, averaging fifteen bushels to the acre. In regard to feed barley, nearly the whole of which is of the Cape variety, it is anticipated the yield will amount to a quarter of a million bushels, averaging twenty -four bushels to the acre. Melbourne, This Day. Official returns show the imports of the colony for the year were of the value of £12,470,000, being a decrease of .£813,000 on the previous year. Exports were £14,026,000, or an increase of £718,000. The Leader, in reviewing the oat and hay crops, says the oat crop is a fairly good one in most districts, and really fine crops have been harvested. In a portion of the northern districts the crop is estimated at six million bushels, or twenty-five bushels to the acre. The hay yield will be about 625,000 tons, or 11] * ous P er acre.