SMALLER CROPS.
SHRINKAGE IN BRITAIN. | In spite of the grer?t increase in the i growth of crops during the war. British farmers are now growing seven and a half million tons less of the principal crop than they did “before the war. During the ten years before the war these ci ops amounted to 48,276,000 tons. Itst year they amounted to only 40,693,500 tons. The average under crops shrank still more, for it is a curious fact that the yield an acre is Ingher now than it was before the war. The wheat crop has gone down 11 per cent., barley 15 per cent*, turnips and swedes 26 per cent. But potatoes have increased by 14 per cent.; and there is a new crop, sugar beet, of 440,000 tons.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 146, 19 August 1926, Page 6
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129SMALLER CROPS. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 146, 19 August 1926, Page 6
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