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NEWSOUTH WALES HARVEST.
GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE OF YIELD.
SYDNEY, Fridav. '
The Government Statistician has fur-
lushed a preliminary forecast of his official
report on. the wheat yield of the colony -for
'the present season. The area under grain
lie sots down at 940,000 against 866,000 acres
in" 1890. - The wheat yield is estimated -lit
9,750,000' bushels, compared with 8,853,000
bushels last year, an average of 10.4 bushels
against 10.2 last year. The area under liny
is reported at 250,000 acres, compared with
101,000 acres in 1896.
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