DOMINION WHEAT AND OATS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1633, 4 November 1916, Page 2

DOMINION WHEAT AND OATS.

A STATEMENT by the Government Statistician on the subject of the estimated areas under wheat and oats for the season 19.1(1-17 is published in this week’s Gazette. In the North Island 19,197 acres were under wheat last year, and eards representing 15,410 acres (or 80 per cant.) of this area have now been returned to the Census and Statistics Office. The growers returning these cards state that they have sown or intend to sow 5,987 acres in wheat this year, and assuming that t hose growers who have not yet returned their cards sow proportionate areas, the total area in wheat for the 1910-17 season should he 7,395 acres. Treating the figures for oats on the same basis it is estimated that a total of 70,208 acres will be grown this season. Similarly in the South Island, 310,225 acres were under wheat in 1915-10. Cards representing 92J per cent, of this area have been returned, and show a proposed 1910-17 area of 195,010 acres. It may, therefore, he assumed that in the South Island a total

a f 1i11,4S- acres will lie sown. Dais harvested for all purposes in tin* South Island in 1915-K! covered 548,101 acres, and cards representing S) 1 per cent, of this acreage have been returned, showing an area ol‘ 428,370. acres. The estimated oat area tor 1016-17 is therefore 472,318 acres. 'J’lie estimates are given in (a hula led form below: — Wheal and Oats. —Areas Harvested 1015-16, and Areas Estimated as Sown or to bo Sown 191(5Ml 7. 4017. A(dutil Aroii reaped, AYheat Oats. 11)1.5-1(5 — Acres. Acres, For threshing 320,207 212,688 For other purposes (1,21(5 127,530 Totai 335,423 640,227 Estimated area sown tor 1010-17 218,877 548,520