The Colony's Wheat Yield.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, May 16. The Kegistrar-General has issued a memo, based on the agricultural statistics, in which he points out that though the wheat harvest shows a good return, 24*32 bushels to the area under crop has fallen to 148,575 acres, nearly all in Canterbury and Otago. This gives a yield of 3,613,037 bushels against 4,891,095 last year, and 10,257,738 in 1892. Owing to the poor harvest last year the export fell to 289,326 bushels, and tbe imports increased to 65,816 bushels. Calculating the amount required for consumption, he finds it to be 4,630,500 bushels, besides 300,000 for seed, so that, allowing for stocks in the hands of farmers, the colony will have to import more than half a million bushels or its equivalent in flour, unless the pram merchants still hold large supplies.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 269, 17 May 1895, Page 2
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