GROWTH OF WHEAT.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10348, 22 April 1911, Page 2

GROWTH OF WHEAT.

TttßH WORLD'S! REIQUIREIMENTS

AJUSTKA|LII!A.'S IMPOEfPANT POST-

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(Per United Prees Association.)

&YDNOY, April 22

In the course of a speech Professor Wiatt, the- agii'ioultural expert at the Sydney University on the growth of wheat, said that to a large extent it depended on the predominance of the white race, whose staple food it was. As the result of sciientifio investigations it was perfectly certain that New South Wales' two million acres of wheat area had increased tc> twenty million acres and better varieties and better fanning would increase the aiveragia yield.

Ho adtted that Sir William Crook in predicting that all lands in the world capalbie of growing wheat would lie required by the year 19-31 to supply the needs of the white population had mot allowed for the fact that science would make it possiblel far Australia' to grow wheat in areaa where the rain fall was bialow twenty inches per* annum.