DOMINIONS ORCHARDS.
THjliJlt-CAPACITY TO PIIOD'UCI-:. Discussing tin; question i>f what 'prospective producing capacily of the orchards now -planted .in New" Zealand will io in, say: fdur years' time, a prominent Xe'w Zealand 'orcliardist who has gone into tin? figures hazarded the opinion that Ihe or.Pput ..will be something like 1,5011.00!) cases .in four'.years,-even iif not another nere is planted. At the Mime time lie painti'd out that arrangements- were Ijeing"lua«l(!'for extensive planting for nest season. iilid lie liud' if-j-doubt (but planting would-.be largely carried'out for'iiuauy- . years lo come. i . '•■ \ In arriving nt his estimate of '1.a00.00fl casus, lie,- reckoned the.average crop a!; one bushel per acre instead of what il; really is*. liye : to six bushels, and lie also (iiok,eaeh acre as being'planted w-ith an average. .100 trues, whereas the maximum' is about Kill Irccs' per acre.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 10
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137DOMINIONS ORCHARDS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 10
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