WHEAT AND OATS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 109, 11 May 1927, Page 4

WHEAT AND OATS.

PROGRESS THRESHINGS. HEAVY YIELDS. Returns of actual threshings received to date (April 19) from threshing-mill owners show that, so far, 3,103,248 bushels of wheat Sd 1,432,785 bushels of oats have been resbed out. The average yields per acre in cases where particulars of areas were furnished (covering 99 per cent of total threshings) work out at 38.26 bushels for wheat and 44.12 bushels for oats. A table is appended showing, by land districts, the quantity of wheat and oats threshed, and the yield per acre in each case:— WHEAT. Quantity Average Yield Land District Bushels Bushels. Threshed per Acre. North Auckland — — Auckland ..... — — Gisborne 3,183 25.50 Hawkes Bay .. 9,106 32.15 Taranaki .... — — Wellington 38.304 31.33 Nelson 15,546 31.28 Marlborough .. 45,041 31,03 Canterbury ... 2,727,225 38.54 Otago 26,342 38.87 Southland .... 2,036 35.80 Totals ... 3,103,248 38.26 OATS. Quantity Average Yield Threshed per Acre. Land District Bushels Bushels. North Auckland — — Auckland .... — — Gisborne — — Hawkes Bay .. 20,607 31.12 Tfl.rs.iifl.kl *« "~" ""* • Wellington .'.'.. 45,806 41.22 Nelson 7,674 27.41 Marlborough .. 15,926 36.23 Canterbury .... 050,061 43.52 Otago 281,323 49.10 Southland .... 110,808 45.54 Totals .... 1,432,785 44.12 The record yield of wheat per acre in the Dominion was in 1903, when 38.37 bushels were threshed. The present season's total threshed represents, at the bushelage of 38.26 per acre, just on 100,000 acres of the 220,000 which is officially estimated to have been sown, according to the Christchurch "Press." It.is improbable that the balance of the threshings will work out at the high early average, as the late Canterbury crops met with a spell of dry weather, and the harvest in the south has been particularly difficult in the matter of climate. However, an all-round reduction to 36 bushels per acre for the whole area means a gross yield of just on eight million bushels.