THE LATEST RETURNS.
AN EVEN BETTER REPORT ON THE WHEAT OUTLOOK. Supplementary return's' I'eceived in Wellington this morning from the South lead to the belief that the yield of wheat will be even greater than was expected. Mr. Ritchie, Secretary of the Department, estimated the average yield at 27 bushels per acre, but he is now inclined to think that it will be fully 30 bushels, in which case the surplus will ue much more than the 6,600,000 bushels shown in the above estimate, which was made on the basis of information received some days ago. In some parts of the Taieri the yield has been at the rate of 52 bushels to the acre. This later and higher estimate, as is obvious, was received aftei our editorial article on the harvest prospects was in type.
The writer of farm and dairy notes in the Hawera Star continues to lament the loss which the weather is causing to the crops. Cocksfoot is cut and lying' unthreshed in the paddocks, and large quantities of hay are still out, now pretty well bleached.
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Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1899, Page 6
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181THE LATEST RETURNS. Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1899, Page 6
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