THE WHEAT SUPPLY.
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS. B; Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrieht Sydney, April 22. In tho course of a speech, Professor Watt, agricultural expert at Sydney University, said the growth of wheal to a largo extent depended on the predominance of tho white race, whose staple food it was. The result of scientific investigations had made it perfectly certain that New South Wales's two million acres of wheat area could bo increased lo twenty million acres, and that better varieties and better farming would increase the average yield. Tho professor added that Sir William Crookes, in questioning whether nil the lands in the world would bo capable of growing the wheat required in 1931 to supply tho needs of the white population, had not allowed for the fact that science would make it possiblo for Australia to grow wheat in areas where the rainfall was below twenty inches per annum.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1109, 24 April 1911, Page 5
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