WHEAT AND OATS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 150, 6 April 1933, Page 8

WHEAT AND OATS

JANUARY AND FEBRUARY. HIGH AVERAGE .YIELDS. Figures for wheat and oats threshed in January and February are contained in the March Abstract of Statistics justpublished, and the Canterbury average for wheat is 40.6-1 bushels and for oats 4.6.56 bushels. The report states: The results of threshing operations carried out during the period January-February have been ascertained from the returns received up to March 24. The figures show that 3,681,612 bushels of wheat and 1,146,953 bushels of oats have been threshed from harvested areas of those crops, the ascertained average yields per acre being 39.92 bushels for wheat and 47.35 bushels for oats. The following table shows, for each land district, the quantities of wheat and oats threshed, and the average yield per acre in each case:— Wheat.

Of the total of 3,681,612 bushels of wheat, 3,474,495 bushels were firsts and only 207,117 bushels seconds. For Canterbury firsts totalled some 3,113,398 bushels and seconds 178,756.

Total. . Av. yield Land District threshed"!- per acre. Bushels. Bushels. Gisborne 812 35.30 Hawke's Bay. . 15,112 23.80 74,281 43.02 20,008 27.91 Marlborough .... 133,536 35.72 Canterbury . 3,292,154 40.64 144,809 33.36 Totals .* 3,631,612 Oats, ""39^92 Total Av. yield Land District threshed. per acre. Bushels. Bushels. Gisborne 336 33.60 Hawke's Bay .. 4,934 44.05 27,404 43.29 7,330 29.56 913,240 46.86 Marlborough .... 44,257 46.73 145,708 53.33 Totals 3,744 64.56 . I,i46,953 47.35