DOMINION’S HARVEST
WHEAT AND OATS THRESHED Returns of actual threshings received to August 20 from threshing mill-owners show that, so far, 8,771,352 bushels of wheat and 3,915,805 bushels of oats have been threshed out (says the Monthly Abstract of Statistics). The average yields per acre in eases where particulars of areas were furnished (covering 99 per cent, of total threshings) Work out at 38.40 bushels for wheat and 45.34 bushels for oats. Tlie following table shows by land districts, the quantity of wheat and oats threshed, and the yield per acre in each case, from January to July, .1928:— ■Wheat.
Quantity Average yield Land District. th reshed. Bushels. per acre. Bushels. North Auckland .. SOG 15.50 Auckland 311 18.29 Gisborne 1.917 20.31 Hawke’s Hay .... lo.xsi .3.3.39 Taranaki 2.93G 49.70 Wellington 75,175 34.95 Nelson .3(1,588 28.23 Marlborough 03,736 30.20 Canterbury 7.410.8(10 39.41 Otago 078.1 OS 31.51. Southland 151.001 31.99 Totals 8,771,352 38.46
(lais. Quantity Average yield Land District. t h resiled. per acre. Bushels. Bushels. North Auckland — —. Auckland — Gisborne am 30.40 Hawke's Bay .. .17.153 32.90 • Taranaki 1,530 49.35 Wellington .... ,., 51.863 40.51 Nelson 12,065 29.28 Mnrlhoroturh .. 27.801 31.01 <’antorbnry ..... ,.. 2.3215.447 44.1m 7V3.989 17.99 Southland ... 67-1,663 47.13 —— Totals 45.34
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 288, 5 September 1928, Page 14
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