Canterbury's Grain Returns
From all quarters of the Colony comes news of the rich yield of the grain aud root crops. la the grain belt of Canterbury the calculated returns show up handsomely. A Southern paper gives the following estin atod yield for the Ashbur on county, in' round numbers-: — Wheat, 79,000 acres— 2,lßo,ooo bushels ; oats, 30.000 acres— 7oo,ooo busneis ; barley 2500 acres— ss,ooo bushels. The Gov- __ ■% n men t returns last year for the same cuuuty were: — Wheat, 76,776 acres — 1,814,486 bu-heis; oats, 28,889 acres— 66l,Bos bushels; barley, 1654 acres — 34.215 bushel*. The approximate estimate of 'the grain crops iv the Kaiapoi district is us follows: — Wheat, 3310 acres— 1 3 1 , 142 bushels, vain, 90.J acres — 36,440 bushels; bar ley, 103 acres— 3s4o "bushels. In this same district there are about 800 acros of potatoes, with au average of five tons to the acre, and about 1600 acres of beans and peas, with exceptional yields.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 95, 16 February 1889, Page 3
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157Canterbury's Grain Returns Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 95, 16 February 1889, Page 3
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