The Chronicle LEVIN. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1916. WHEAT HARVEST OF NEW ZEALAND.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 April 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN. SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1916. WHEAT HARVEST OF NEW ZEALAND.

: ca-mtiis iiot hard to guess therehas Oei'ii apparent in lN«w Ze.tia-acl tin:'jj gln 1 Jlew weeks a to underestimate the huely average of iiie d, minion wheat crop for the fieaion now ending. it ,s satisfactory, tlui c; .uv, i.» tinU thai' the Government's oiiil'ial estimate, .subject to revision) shows a total yieVl of wheat sliyhtlv in excess of last season',s crop, which was oufEcient for .New Zealand's nee Is. In the llaugiiiki i district, which is the only place on this coast wherein wheat is grown to any great extent, the average disc Vised by threshing mills returns works out at 35.07 bw.-liel- per acre, which total is over oA- bushels per aero in excess of last season's figures 1,2«.:i'2). Ilangitikei's average is the third highest for the whole of New Zealnnd (so far as the available records disclose the position). The exceptions are Springs (Canterbury) where the yield; is 36.n7 bushejs per acre, as against 18.85 for 1914-15; and Paparua (Canterbury) Ji7.(j9 bushels as against: 19.90 for 191-1-15. A note on the harvests or wheat.-rind eats, published in the latest- Menthh- Abstract <if Government Statistic-, shows that returns el actual threshings received to date (16th Ma rem from threshing mill owners prove that .luring llie months of January and I'Vbnini-v bushels of wheat a id 1.0(59.800 bushels of oats

were threshed out. The average yields per acre in cases where particnYirs o! areas were furnished work out at 20. bushels for wheat and 2fi.90 bushels for oats. If the average yield ef -wheat shown above (20.13 bushels) be applied over the whole dominion the total yield of wheat for the season would appear to be approximately six million and thrce-oiiorter bushels, or just slightly in excess of last season's total. The figures foregoing all are based upon returns irom * dfstnets wherein areas of one thousand acres oi' more were harvested.