CROP ESTIMATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 48, 26 February 1935, Page 4

CROP ESTIMATES.

THE OFFICIAL FIGURES. The following estimated average yields ail acre of wheat, oats and barley for the season 1934-35 have been compiled from reports furnished by stock inspectors of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion:— Wheat. Oats. Barley. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels, acre. no re. acre. North Island -'9 3." 39 Nelson 19 SO 20 Marlborough -3 3H 26 Canterbury 29 ."'6 2." Otiigo "1 3~> .'!1 Southland 34 40 34 Average (est.) for Dominion 29 37 28 The above estimates may be compared with last season's actual average yields, which were: —Wheat 31.56 bushels, oats 41.39 bushels, and barley 34.77 bushels. The wheat area for 1934-35 is estimated to be only 77 per cent of that of 1933-34, and the total yield of wheat for the current season is expected to bo approximately 6,500,000 bushels only, a 6 against a:i ascertained yield of 9,030,017 bushels for the season 1933-34. The area from which oats were threshed for the five seasons ending with 1933-34 averaged 23 per cent of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 2,670,000 bushels, as against 3,242,500 bushels for the season 1933-34. On a similar assumption m regard to barley, the total yield of grain should be approximately 450,000 bushels, as against 730,963 bushels lor the season j 1933-34.