WORLD'S WHEAT YIELD.
SIR WILLIAM CROOKS' PREDICTION. PROFESSOR WATT'S REPLY. Oy Telc.eiMiiii.-rrc-. As- j-;.i;i"n.- CoriynrlU Received Apris 22, '3.15 a.m. Sydney, This Day, In the course of a speech by Professor Watt, the agricuturai expert at Sydney University, on the growth of wheat, he said that to a large extent it depended on the uredominence nf the white race, whose staple food it was. The result of scientific investigations had made this perfectly certain. New South Wales had two million acres of wheat, and the wheat area had increased to twenty million acres, while better varieties and better farming had increased the average yield. He added: "Sir William Crookes, in predicting that all the land in the world capable of growing wheat would be required by 1931 to supply the needs of the white populations, had not allowed for the fact that science could make it possible for Australia to grow wheat in areas where the rainfall was below twenty inches per annum."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 354, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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163WORLD'S WHEAT YIELD. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 354, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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