World's Wheat Crop

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1915, Page 2

World's Wheat Crop

The ..January number of the "Bulletin of .\grkulturn] and CoinmerciaT"Statistics. v by the International Institute of Agriculture, publishes reports on sowing, and the condition of winter cereal crops in the Northern Hemisphere. Kogarding the extent of crops, there is mi inei-eu.se in the area cultivated in comparison with the 1914 area for "Ileal in Italy (.3.000,000 hectares, -w increase of r, per tr ut). -j„ Canada (•323.000 hectares, an increase of 33 pel cent.) in the United .States (10,098,723 hectare*, an inerea.se of H per cent,), and in India (11.011.588 hectare* an increase of 22 per cent.). For the present, crop conditions are not generally stated to he abnormal. ''«■• wheat the 191 I-1/5 harvest fore easts are-given for Argentina. Chili and .Australia, the fotal prw.it crop in all these countries being estimated at 00.f 1 7.007 quintals, compared with 02JJ2.000 in 1913-14. or 107.1 per cent Ihe excellent yield of Argentine ..,,<! Chili largely compensates for the reduced crop in Australia i ■ inffimiiiiM iii ji ,