WHEAT AND OATS
THE ESTIMATED PRODUCTION WHEAT YIELD APPROXIM ATELY 10,500,000 BUSHELS. The Government Statistical! announces that the following estimated average yields per acre of wheat and oats for the season 1921-22 have been compiled from reports furnished by stock inspectors of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion: —
for the Dominion season 1921-22 29.32 40.68 Average (actual) for Dominion, season 1920-21 31.24 35.41 In accordance with the above estimates the total yield of wheat for the Dominion should be approximately 10,500,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of only 6,87*2,262 bushels for the season 19*20-21. The percentage of oats threshed for the five seasons ending with 1920-21 was 31.87 of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 6,000,000 bushels as against an actual yield of 5,225,115 bushels for the season 1920-21.
District. Wheat. Oats. Bushels Bushels per acre. per acre. North Island 32.73 37.08 Nelson 22.97 24.00 Marlborough. 34.48 44.66 Canterbury 27.89 37.45 Otago 34.06 44.56 Southland 39.67 48.81 Average (estimated)
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1922, Page 7
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178WHEAT AND OATS Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1922, Page 7
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