NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 20, 19 October 1920, Page 7

NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT

: LARGE ADDDITIONAL AREA SOWN. The preliminary estimate of the Government Statistician is that in New South Wales this year 3,585,300 acres have been sown with wheat. This is in keeping with the forecasts that had been made of th» increased acreage cropped. Thore is an increase of 535,000 acres, or 17.5 per cent., as compared with tho area sown last year. This is still a long way short of tho 5,122,000 acres sown in 1915-10, which stands as the State's a-ecord. This year's total has been oxceeded in five seasons out of the - past eight, . - , Of ths area under crop it is estimated i that 2,940,600 acres will be harvested for > grain and 038,700 acres cut for hay. ■ Should tho expectation of three million acres being reserved for grain bo real- '■ iscd, it is finite possible, the way soa- > sonal conditions aro developing, for the State to harvest 45,000,000 bushels of i wheat, or even more. ' Official calculations in connectioli with the wheat to • be handled by tho pool have placed tho ' harvest at 40,000,000 bushels. I A significant fact is that there are i tliis vear nearly a thousand more wheat, • farmers. In 1910 wheat was grown on IG,2Cfi holdings. For the current season 17,227 growers have furnished returns. The total area of new ground brought under crop is 142,900 acres— tho best result in this connection since 1917. The area cropped has been increased in each of tho wheat-growing divisions, as compared with last year, ranging from 15 per cent, .in the south-western slopes to 22 per cenl. in tho central- [ western slopes.