WHEAT PRODUCTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 4

WHEAT PRODUCTION.

■■■> SEASONAL ESTIMATES. SUBSTANTIAL DROP EXPECTED. (By -Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ' : ■ ' WELLINGTON, Friday. Estimates of the probable average yield of the.Domdnipn's cereal crops have been prepared by the Government Statistician, based on-the, reports of stock inspectors of the Department of Agriculture. The main '"conclusion.!. is that the estimated wheat crop-this 'harvest will show a'. decline of 1,732,864 bushels. Details of the yield, in bushels, per acre, follow:— District. Wheat. Oats. Barley. North island 34.03 . 39.47 38.39 kelson ...... 24.00 30.00 Mj.OO Marlborough- 30.72' -85-00 Canterbury .. 30.40 38.61 31.u4 OtagO ..V.v. 30.89 38.26 36.26 Southland .. 36.61 45.50 41,17 Average (estimated), for the Dominion season 1929-30, 30.56, 39.71, 33.89. • Average (actual) for the Dominion seaeon,' 1928-29, 34.00, 41.93, 40.06. In accordance with the above estimates, tiie total yield of wheat 7 for the Dominion should be approximately 7,100,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 8,832,864 bushels for the season 1928-29. . The percentage of oats threshed for the five seasons ending with 1928-29 was 28.87 of the total area under tha't _ crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year the total yield of grain should be* approximately 3,150,000 bushels, against an actual yield of 3,065,113 'bushels for the season 1928-29,. , The percentage of .barley threshed in the five- seasons' ending with 1928-29 was 98.23 of the . total area, under that crop. Assuming that a .similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of gram should be approximately 680,000 bushels, against an actual yield of 781,102 bushels for the season 1928-29.