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 COMMEKCE AND SHIPPING

The chief crops in two years were : —


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Acres

Acres

Quantities

Quantities

(1910)

(1911)

(1910)

(1911)

Wheat.

2,104,717

2,190,782

24,344,740 bushels

20,352,720 bushels

Barley.

34,473

40,743

544,471

702,855 ,,

Oats

77,674

107,881

1,136,618 ,,

1,349,480 ,,

Hay.

440,177

521,182

598,064 tons

605,239 tons

Potatoes

7,812

7,412

23,920 „

22,668 ,,

Vines

22,952

23,986

3,470,058 gallons

2,921,597 gallons ^

1 Of Wine.

Bread-stuffs exported 1911 beyond the Commonwealth, 3,844,681/.

Fruit culture is extensively carried on, both fresh and dried fruit being exported in 1911. The chief fruit crops, besides grapes, are currants, apples, apricots, peaches, almonds, oranges, lemons, olives (yielding in 1911 about 7,817 gallons of oil). The live stock in December, 1911, consisted of 259,719 horses, 393,566 cattle, and 6,171,907 sheep. In 1911, the area of 143,041 S(|uare miles was held under 610 pastoral leases.

The mineral wealth as yet discovered consists chiefly in copper, silver and gold. The value of cojjper produced in 1911 was 332,500/.; the output of gold in 1911 amounted to 3,537 ounces, value 15,000?. Value of total mineral production in 1911, 450,054/.

In 1911 there were 1,314 factories in the State, employing 27,907 hands. Wages and salaries amounted to 2,645,386/. Gross value of output, 12,580,851/.; machinery, land and buildings, kc, valued at 5,460,855?.

Commerce and Shipping.

The Commerce of South Australia, exclusive of inter-State trade, is com- prised in the statement of the Commerce of Australia given under the head- ing of the Commonwealth.

Imports and exports, inclusive of inter-State trade : —

Years Imports

Exports

Years | Imports Exports

1906 1907 1908

£

9,702,264

12,120,052

11,231,470

£ i 11,933,171 13,898,585 13,778,537

£ £

1909 11,335,669 12,646,701 1910^ 5,976,543 10,243,197 1911 1 6,245,819 10,174,966

1 Import and export figure^? from 1910 onwards are for oversea trade only. The figures for previous years include the inter-State trade, which is not now available.

The chief exports of the State are wool, wheat, wheat-Hour, and copper. The registered shipping in 1911 consisted of 193 sailing vessels of 18,318 tons, and 119 steamers of 45,073 tons ; total, 312 vessels of 63,391 tons.