GRAIN HARVEST
ITALY’S HOPES. ROME, October ■!. Mussolini’s aim of making Italy . Independent of grain imports bids fair to be realised when the wheat, crop is harvested this year. . , . The harvest, the Italian Premier announces,'.will reach 276,000,000 bushels, .the largest-, in Italy’s 'history and an increase of 250 per cent, over prewar totals.
The average yield is expected to be 22 bushel's to th e acre, as compared with 15 bushels twenty years ago. Tt is claimed * that* this result 'is‘ifo! ■due to gh iticrOass in acreage, but tc more 'intensive ftnd scientific cultivation of the grain under th e spur of Mussolini's ♦‘battle of grain” scheme
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1932, Page 7
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106GRAIN HARVEST Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1932, Page 7
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