NEW SOUTH WALES HARVEST

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES HARVEST

A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

SYDNEY, 26th August.

While it is rather early to venture an estimate of the coming harvest in New South Wales, the Agricultural Department is of the opinion, assuming that the spring weather is favourable, that the 1926-27 harvest should yield at least 40,000,000 bushels of wheat. There is every possibility, however, that these figures will be exceeded. A factor pointing to a good yield is that, apart from generally good germination and excellent growth of crops, the subsoil has been thoroughly saturated with moisture, and that no heavy demand was made on the fertility of the soil last season, owing to so many light crops. The soil is therefore regarded as being in a fit condition for heavy yields. The outlook generally is vety bright. The thing that strikes one in the country districts in New South Wales is the phenomenal growth of feed everywhere. In the western portion of the State this is especially noticeable. Everywhere there is a veritable riot of herbage. With the illimitable expanse of rich feed in the far west one cannot help contrasting the fact that across the. border in Queensland the ravages of drought are making themselves felt. Through the Upper Hunter the herbage has been so phenomenal in its growth as to be not without anxiety to dairymen and farmers, losses due to "hoven" and other causes being rather severe.