NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT YIELD

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1924, Page 9

NEW SOUTH WALES WHEAT YIELD

The harvest in New South Wales is estimated, at 11,109,000 bags, which is ■equivalent on the basis of.three bushels P6 4 £$'«£ 33' 327' 000 bushels of grain and, 691,000 tons.of.hay. The total area sown-with wheat was 3,9035900 acres Of this area 2,806,100. acres were harvested i°r,pUkain; m>^ acres for hay. ™* 408,800 acres.either failed or were fed off The average yield of grain was 11 9 bushels per acre, or .3 bushels greater than the average in the State for the past ten seasons. The total production represents an increase of 4,733,000 bushels, of grain and 36,000 tons of hay over the harvest of the previous season. While the rain during the growing season was sufficient in quantity in most districts to have produced better results, it was so badly distributed as1, to have a serious effect upon the harvest. During the early part of the year drought conditions prevailed generally over- the whole of the wheat belt, and it was not until June that good rains were recorded. Splendid rains followed, but from August . onwards the falls were generally light, and while- this dry spell was not marked in the south, and served to counteract the results of excessive rains-in some districts, the return to dry conditions proved disastrous to many crops in the centra] and northern areas. The highest.average yield was obtained in Rivenna, viz.. 14.2 bushels per acre, and the lowest, in the central western plain, viz., 6.1 bushels per acre. _The stocks of old season's wheat and flour held in the State at the end of November last were (in equivalent wheat) 2,229.,000. bushels. If the estimated pro-

ductioh during 1923-24 be added to this, there will be available 35,556,000 bushels. There will be. a surplus of at least 18,000,000 bushels available for export