THE GRAIN YIELD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8854, 3 July 1907, Page 3

THE GRAIN YIELD.

For Press Association. ■Wellington, July 2. mi - of Agriculture has • S returns of the Colony’s issued cor - actual yields per aero “■ 31 nre°dctai!s of tlio yields snei r I*.?- „ m hand;—Wheat: The area «?T W bushels. Quantity of wheat and flour imported from Noy. 1, 1900, to Fob. 28 1907, 3 “.° 13 bushels; total. S 707 SO 1 ! bushels. From this has to bo H,ken wheat and flour exported from Nov 1, 1906. to Feb. 28, 1907, 19,300 bushels, and consumption for same period 1 880,000 bushels, leaving the amount available for all purposes Feb. 28, 1907, at C 808,201 bushels. Estimated quantity reauired for seed 500,000 bushels; estimated consumption to Feb, 28, 1908, 5 760,000 bushels; total 0,200,000 bushels, leaving an apparent surplus of 608,261 bushels.