CROP ESTIMATES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1995, 28 February 1914, Page 8

CROP ESTIMATES.

: .; 'CANTERBURY OPINIONS; '' . . J .(By_»Telcgxflp]ifePceJ3. ( ,Association.) Chrlstchurch, February 27. The estimated "yield of- crops for tho 'current. season, as - published by tho Department;, of _AgriculturOj has bech (subjected to 'some criticisiri. '.An cstij rtf'ate'-of- 3&-bu'shols per aero of wheat is considered Altogether too low 1 , aiid, so far as north and ihid-Cantorbury arc concorned,; the yield 'will bo nearer 40 bushels .per-'acre," as-'so'inauy -cropS' aro ijyielding'SO-'-t'o 60 .bushels per aero. An l , average for tlie''Dominion of 35 bushels i jper acfe woiUd bo well within tho mark. :'A ,35 bhshel- crtip on the acreage estiI'mated to have been . sown will: give a •total quantity' o£ about- equal to tho [Dominion's" requirements. The estianated'yield of oats —41.03 bushels per jicro—will allow considerable' suppliesfor":export. 'Tho. barley crop esti:j>lat«d to yield'3B.3l bushels, and the jiotato crop 6.7 tons.per acre, are both .looked ; on as-too high. . .If potatoes [.yielded; about-live tons to tho • acre,' ;'the(total- quantity-on-tlio increased acreage would "be- heaj'ly '. equal- to last year's !crop, which was : "somewhat beyond tho i'D.b'minion's requirements." \The' -total •'yield; ■.however, -is - impossible: to esti'iviate, u'ntil 'it-is J; seeii to-iwliat extent ; tho crop is affected' bv the blight, mid Xhis" 'willVnofc.; bo ascertained' 'till after digging