DOMINION CROPS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1686, 28 February 1913, Page 6

DOMINION CROPS.

ESTIMATED TOTAL YIELDS. \According to returns furnished to tho Hegistrar-Qeseral the total estimated yields in the Dominion of tho principal crops for the season 1912-13 will be approximately as given below. Tho csti- . mato is based on a collection of returns by post. All forms posted to farmers wero not returned; the percentage of returns received out of the forms issued varying from 7G.1 in Auckland to 99,5 in Canterbury, and averaging 88.61 per cent over the 'whale Dominion. Wheat (bushels) 5,705,900 Oats, (bushels) 14,870,445 Barley (bushels) 1,360,552 ■Ryegrass (lbs.) 27,877,334 Cficksfoot (lbs.) 7,385,450 Potatoes (tons) 155,835 Turnips (tons) 6,496,213 Mangolds (tons) 428,142 The following are condensed reports of enumerators on-the prospects of yields of crops in the various districts:— Auckland—Conditions generally unsatisfactory and crops backward. Potato crop promises to bB fair and free from blight. Hawke's Bay—Season favourable, and grain crops probably heavier than last year. Root crops suffering from dry weather. Tn'rnnaki—Early grain crops are doing wcll,_ but la.to sown arc generally light and includo many failures. Ryegrass and cocksfoot are'expected to bo good, as also are root crops. ■ Wellington—Grain crops are doing very well. , Marlborough and Nelson—The prospects for grain crops aro good, but root crops nro suffering from' dry weather. Potatoes promise to be very fnir. Canterbury—Wheat is doing better than oots, and cocksfoot is expected to bo well over tho average. Potatoes, which for somo time were looking only moderately well, arc improving. Otago—On tho whole corn crops are light; potatoes and turnips only medium. , Southland—Yields of wheat, oats, and ryegrass will lie considerably less than last ynnr, while potatoes, turnips, and •mangolds Trill probably be much better.