ARGENTINE CEREALS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 588, 17 August 1909, Page 10

ARGENTINE CEREALS.

While Now Zealand iV greatly increasing her area under wheat ,Uiis season, other .countries may bo trusted not to bo standing still in iho matter in .view of the,, prospects of good prices for thy next season or two. Tlio area dovoted to /jereals in 'Argentina is not yet officially est/.mate'd for the present season, but a comp/irison of tlio figures of past.years will bo'interesting. ■. The. figures of the four principf j grain crops produced in the last four seas/jus show that while wheat has been tlio grtfiii mpst Jargcly cultivated, it lias not beeiv increasing in such rapid strides as the Vnltivatioii of oats, which; ill the last four Reasons increased in area' by liiora than 10?; .pcrocut, per annum. The gat urea last/season was fwelya times aa

large as tlio oat area' of three years previ-' ously, and the total yield was over 18 times as-much; tn the following figures tho bushel is calculated in weights of 0011). for wheat, 561b. for maize and flaxseod, and 321b. for oats. Tho 1008-9 wheat crop is fully 30 million bushels below tho record crop of the. previous year, although grown on an itrei 750,000 acres larger, flio first estimate for wheat, published last October, has now been lowered practically 50 million bushels,' whilo the figure for oats has been slightly raised.; Tho-official figures are as follow:— ; Wheat. Ci>rn. ' ' "| Year. Area. Pr'd'ct'n, • ,Arca. Pr'd'ct'n. Acres. Bushels.- Acres. Bushels. 1908-9 11,982,209 161,700,000 7i318,G00 1907-8 1-1,233,200 192,489,000 G,719,-400 13G,057,000 1900-7 14,065,800 155,993,000 7,015,700 .71,7G5,000| 1905-6 14,023,900. 134,931,000.. 6,714, GOO 194,912,000 : Oats.- ,- Flaxseed. Year. Area. • Pr'd'ct'n. Area. -Pr'd'ct'n. Acres. Bushels. Acres. Bushels. 1908-9 1,564 900 • 58,600,000 3,791,300 42,800,000 1907-8 701,000 33,949,000 3,438,400 43,333,000 1906-7- -395,000 12,400,000 2,042,100 32,502,000 19054! - 128,000 3,400,000 2,527,300.23,303,000