LINCOLN COLLEGE WHEAT YIELDS
Tho wheat Yields at Lincoln College, over ii number of years, supplied to a "Lvttelton Times" reporter by Dr. HilKendorf, aro interesting. In the first five years of the college's existence thoy wero an follow :-IBS3, 42 bushels per acre';; 1831, 32; 18Sii, 41; 18SG, 30; 1887, 23. Then there was n gup during which the yields were not taken in a. manner In niiikn Hidm useful in the present comnnrijon. Since 11)09, however, they wero as follow —11)00. 57 bushels; 1910, 41; mil, 38; 1912, .11; 1913, 44; 1014, 50; 1915, 51 bushels. Siuco the beginning of the war period the figures were:—lillG (reniwiitimr the earlier season's Bowing), 24 bushels: 101'. 20; 1018, 28; 1011),'50; and Ihn esliinsilra f"r Hie present year is in tho viciuitv of 50 bushels. In HUG, tho ficnsnh of the abnormally low yield (24 bushels) there wore only 131 inche3 of ruin, as acainst an average of 25 inches. FrosU wero nlso dostructive Hint yenr. In ilm first fivo yenrs referred to th« averau'O rainfall wns'2fiin., and tho fume a vera se 01/tainrd iu Hi" latter I'.'ii, so that the imyrnved yields nvioenco lhat Ihn methods adopted have been successful. ,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 73, 19 December 1919, Page 10
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200LINCOLN COLLEGE WHEAT YIELDS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 73, 19 December 1919, Page 10
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