CANTERBURY WHEAT

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 96, 18 January 1938, Page 11

CANTERBURY WHEAT

Rain Increases Yield

By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. , Christchurch, January 17.

Last month’s rain was worth something over £74,000 to Canterbury wheat growers, for it is estimated that the refreshing fall put at least five bushels <'ii to tlie average yield and increased the lotal yield by close on 1,000,000 bushels. Estimates received last, week by the Wheat Committee have now been worked out, and show an estimated yield for the season of close on 30 bushels to the acre, compared with the actual yield of 32.32 bushels to the acre last season.

These returns come from 172 farms, covering 12,014 acres and representative of all types of wheat-growing land. The returns are taken from the same properties each year, so that a more accurate estimate may be made. Farmers all over the province are delighted at the turn events have taken. A month ago the average yield looked like being in the neighbourhood of 25 bushels to the acre, but the rain came just at the right time and tilled out the grain. One Waimate farmer, who, at the beginning of December, considered lie would be lucky if he got 2.> bushels to tlie acre, now says he will be disappointed if he does not average 40 bushels.