LAST SEASON'S HARVEST.
FSB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, July 4. f The returns for the last season's harvest in the colony are now avail- , able. The actual yields are consider-1 , ably heavier than was estimated J Wheat was estimated at 28 bushels ppr acre, and tb.9 return was aotual'y 38.37 bushels. 0 its wet e estimated at 35 bushel* and ra urnnd 45, wbile barley, estimated at 37 bushels, returned 40.69 per aer». Tho area of - wheat for threshing wa" 194,355 acre?, !and the Wal yield is computed at 17,457,915 bushels. Th« amount cf wh-at returned on hand on 31st Oa ! tober, 1902, was 1,230,700 bushels. The amount of wheat and fl ur imported between November 1902 and Febru<ry 1903 was 59,510 bushels The amount of wheat and flour exported between November 1902 and February 19Q3 was 76,940 bushels, and the con&ump'ion iu the same pariod for a popu'ation of 850,000 was reckoned at the rate of sis bushels per head per annum. This left available for all purposes in February last 6,971,275 bushrda. The estimated qmntity required f r seed is 400,000 bushels, anl for consumption for the period ending wi h February next year 5,160,000 bu hels. The apparent surplus it 1,411,270 bushels, ' [
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 156, 6 July 1903, Page 2
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204LAST SEASON'S HARVEST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 156, 6 July 1903, Page 2
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