BRITAIN’S HARVEST
ALL CROPS UNUSUALLY GOOD INESTIMABLE BENEFITS OF FINE SUMMER (Australian Press association.) (Rec. September 20, 9.10 p.m.) London, September 19. "I have never known a more successful harvest than that just reaped in Britain,” says Professor James Long, (lie agricultural expert. “The farmers in practically every district admit that almost every crop is unusually good and reaped most quickly and cheaply, thanks to the prolonged line weather.” Taking 100 as a full average, Professor Long estimates the crops at: Wheat, 98; barley, 97; oats, 94; potatoes, root crops, and hay, 95. The “Daily Express” says the marvellous summer in Britain has brought inestimable benefits. The harvest is expected to be a record, and the health throughout the country is vastly improved, owing to the unusually large 1 amount of sunshine.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 302, 21 September 1928, Page 11
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