BRITAIN'S HOME-GROWN SUPPLIES
FORTY WEEKS' BREAD IN SIGHT. (Rcc.' May 30, 8.20 p.m.) London, May 29. It is officially estimated that since 1916 two and a half million acres Jiave been added to the tilled lands in England and Wales, three hundred thousand acres in Scotland, and one and a half million acres in Ireland. Tho wheat acreage has been increased 39 per cent., oats, 35 per cent., and potatoes 50 per cent. It is estimated that if tho yield reaches tho average the next harvest will supply forty weeks'' supply of bread and an additional half million tons of animal foodstuffs. The harvest of 1916 supplied only eleven .weeks' supply of bread and that of 1917 thirteen weeks.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 5
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121BRITAIN'S HOME-GROWN SUPPLIES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 216, 31 May 1918, Page 5
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