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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 233, 7 February 1911, Page 5

In the carefully prepared crop estimates of the British Board of Agriculture Scotland claims to he "the predominant partner" in the Triune Kingdom of Great Britain. In fact (says the North British Agriculturalist), Scotland leads the way in all hut the growing of oats, where Kngland has a clear lead. In wheat, for instance, while England grew only an average of 31.10 bushel* per acre and gallant little Wales an average of 28.19 bushels per acre, the 'land of the mountain and flood" came out with an average of 38.33 bushels per acre. In all other crons of grain, legumes, and hay, Scotland had an equally clear lead, with the one solitary exception of oats. It is not very clear why it is that Kngland should persistently keep the lend of Scotland in the growine of oats, but the prolmble reason is that in 'Scotland many poor lands arc under steady cultivation. .