UNITED KINGDOM'S GRAIN CROP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 8

UNITED KINGDOM'S GRAIN CROP.

/ ! London, Isoveinber 11 The Board of Agriculture -estimates the yield of gram in the United Kingdom this year as follows - "*■ i " QuartefS J , Wheat ~v <i«\ , ... /. 7,G!b,CDO Barley,, ~-; . ," ' "17,MUC(IO Oa i 6 . ~ ', «. ' «... 15,397,000 -1 ' There 13 an.lnciease. of 12\1 per in the afea of land under wtteit m Srkain. this, soi Eon, and the. yield pel acio has all along been expected to Be gooa Theie is, ade 1 creased flica tindei barl&y nnd'oits—dcor^asei I of 0 2 and i 1 per cont ♦ Tho follomng paitioulars of British agricultural operations 1 up to June, 1909, reported by tho Uoaul df .Agni culture, lyill be — J , ' to 61 ope, the total acreage undei coHivat?on was 32,183,073, as compared with 32,211,380 in the preceding year, a decrease n£ 01 per cent The tofiJJ/kdivfeVe]udin?^a'tfti),, 1 was 5G,2H,830 ■*■ Ai.aWe , land 'is gnen at 14,730JJ68 acres a decrease of 0 i per cent Pel manent grass land (fort hay), 4,777,55!Tacre5, a decrease of 3 5 per cent ,1 ditto (not tor hay), 12,674,81b aeies, an increase of 17 oei cent Total, 17,452,400 acres, an increase of 0 2 pei cent, Acreage of tho chief crops is given as undei —Wheat, 1821,563, an increase of 121 per cent , barley, 1,684',094..iicre5, jdecreaso 0 2 por cent, oats, 2,981,789, dew ease 41 per cent , turning and sivedes, -1 555,W2, lnciease, 6 7 per cent , pptatoes, 575,461, increase' I i por eerit,' small fruit, acres increase 2 6 poi cent Clover and rotjition'grass.es , , foL ha}, 2,03.j,827 acres •» decrease of 8? per cont , not ioV liaj, 2,178,70J ncrea a deoreVse of 0 5 per 'cent Otlier crops 102,991, bare fallow, 25!),1il deeceiis&of per 251,836 acres) £ crease of 0 4 per centdvcirtr- !>ni k> * iWIIMII. h '

i a hlavv' fiiick One of the heaviest , fleece's" oTVtool uhieh has come 1, into tho Wellington wool sales ot lecent years ttas ono sent in b> Mr D P Matthews, manager of the Wellington Butcher ing Company to ATessrs Levin and Co, Itd The fleece turned the =cale at 20lb and was from a fonr-tooth maiden ewo Eomne) Its value wne 13s—Hot a bid return from one sheep. .\<\i\Z\l ' "\\f ' 1. • WRIT..I-PR ) „,„ ,„ Onr Feilding' 'correspondent states that Messrs- '(for; Mj» \V *H Dnncan) have issued a writ against the Glen Orona Dairy Company account of alleged dismissal without notice Mr Dun can wab the company's manager for seven years- _ s The etrifc-o in Australia, by causing -wool buj-ers to refuse to operaio ponding its settlement (as reported from Bcifibane) may perhaps indirectly improve tho Ntm Zealand puces CODIiTN MOTH IN APPLES AND PEABS i-A certain remedy is Swift's Arsenate of Lead Spray after petals of blossoms fall, tontunro at intervals' thtonshfloidia Jparoifa,