VALUABLE RAIN
BENEFIT TO WH EATGROWERS. CANTERBURY YIELD. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 17. Last month’s rain was worth something over £74 000 to Canterbury wheatgrowers, for it is estimated that the refreshing fall put at least five bushels on to the average yield and increased the total yield by close on a million bushels. Estimates received last week by the Wheat Committee have now been worked out and show the estimated yield for the season of close on JO bushels to the acre, as compared with the actual yield of 32.32 bushels to the acre last season." These returns come from 172 farms covering 12.614 acres, and representative of all types of wheatgrowing land. The returns are taken from the same properties each year so that a more accurate estimate may be made. Farmers all over the province are delighted at the turn events have taken. A month ago the average yield looked like being in the neighbourhood of 25 bushels to the acre, but the rain came just at the right time and filled out the grain. One AVaimate farmer who at the beginning of December considered he would be lucky if he cot 25 bushels to the acre now says he. will be disappointed if he does not average 40 bushels.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 17 January 1938, Page 7
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214VALUABLE RAIN Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 17 January 1938, Page 7
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