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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 584, 8 June 1868, Page 2

The CANTERBritr Grain Chop.— ln reference to this subject the Lytteiton Times lias an article in which it says :—According to our former calculations, we arrived at the conclusion that after allowing for the consumption and the seed purposes of this province a balance of about ■IOO,OOO bushels of wheat would remain available for export. To this must be added the produce of the rest of the colony. The table already alluded to shows that tlicrs were 21,000 acres sown in all New Zealand outside of Canterbury. Taking the average yield at 25 bushels to the acre —in Otago we believe it is more than that —the result gives 525,000 bushels. From this we roust deduct at least 45,000 bushels for seed. This leaves 480,000, which, added to the Canterbury surplus, makes 880,000 bushels in all. Upon this quanti« ty then, the population of the colony, minus Canterbury—which is already provided for in our reckoning—has to depend until next harvest. Of course we must be understood to exclude foreign imports from this calculation. We can now see what are the prospects of the wheat market in the c-olonj for tbs remainder of tbs year.