Poor Returns in New South Wales.
The Government Statistician has completed the crop and the stock returns, and the actual results of the harvest bear out the forecast made in December.
There were fifty thousand acres less under crop that in the preceding year. Of the area in wheat about seven hundred thousand acres failed to yield any crop. The actual yield of wheat was 1,561,000 bushels, compared with 14,808,000 bushels for the previous year. The average was one bushel and a quarter per acre, while hay yielded less than a quarter of a ton to the acre. Maize and lucerne are the only products which shows an increase The stock returns show a decrease of 14,742,000 sheep, 312,000 cattle, 37,000 horses and 73,000 pigs
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Manawatu Herald, 9 April 1903, Page 2
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125Poor Returns in New South Wales. Manawatu Herald, 9 April 1903, Page 2
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