A CROP RETURN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 8

A CROP RETURN.

EFFECT OF THE DRY SEASON.

A return giving an estimate-of the area under certain crops on October 20, 1010, appears in last night's Gazette. It is as under; —

. The area of oats grown for chaffing is (it is stated) .probably larger than for the preceding two seasons, the Marlborough production, being estimated at 7000 to 8000 acres. A considerable quantity; in localities -affected.- by. insufficient rain,' intended t°r- threshing has<been used 1 for chaff. The- areas.. of ■ turnips ■ and rape have been increased in, sonio districts since the returns, wero collected by crops of these .plants being sown on land which had been - occupied .-by cereal .crops fed off or.harT®' id; early owing to dry weather. -, The .dry season in the principal grain-. growing districts had the effect of checking the development of the crops to such an extent.that some were - fed off by jbek, and some ripened prematurely and,were cut for chaff. Th cockfoot and.ryegrass seed' crops have also been greatly diuimshed .by the same cause. The-rains "since the middle of November caused a great improvement in tho remaining crops and the pastures.

Area for • trop; / - Year, Threshing.'., Seed. Wheat ...... 1910-11 ' 27-1,533 1 - }J ! >eat 1903-10 311,000 - pats ' '.... 1910-11 353,997 - Oats 1909-10 '378)000 - Barley 1910-U 32,909 _ Barley ...... 1909-10 41,300 — Maize " 1910-11 9,013 — Peas ......... 1910-11 13,673 Ryegrass .... 1910-11 — - 50 Ryegrass ... 1909-10 - 50,550 . Cocksfoot .. 1910-U — ;o,527 Cocksfoot .. 1909-10 • — 29 500 licil Glover 1910-11 ■ — . '4 8*> . .White Clover. 1910-11., " .©3 , .Potatoes-..I'Jlb-llr - -30,050 — Potatoes ... 1909-10 ' 30,500 — / Turnips ... 1910-11 ' 508,596 — . Turnips ... 1909-10 522,550 — Mangolds ... 1910-lt 11,004 — Rapo 1910-11 220,602 ' — Bape ; 1909-10 225,035