THE WORLD'S WHEAT. ADDRESS BY AN EXPERT.
WHAT SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION HAD PROVED. AUSTRALIA'S POSSIBILITIES, i By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 22, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In the course of a speech, Professor Watt, agricultural expert at Sydney University, said the growth of wlfeat to a large extent depended on the predominance of the white race," whose staple food it was. Tho result of scientific investigations had made it perfectly certain that New South Wales's two million acres wheat area could be increased to twenty million acres, and that better varieties and better farming would increase the average yield. The professor added that Sir William Crookes, in questioning whether all the lands in the world would be capable of growing the wheat required by 1931 to supply the needs of the white population, had not allowed for the fact that science would make it possible for Australia to grow wheat in areas where the rainfall was below twenty inches per annum.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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163THE WORLD'S WHEAT. ADDRESS BY AN EXPERT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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