MORE WHEAT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 49, 26 August 1930, Page 8

MORE WHEAT

AUSTRALIAN HARVEST

RECORD IN SIGHT

(From '/Tjfte Post's" Representative.) ■ SYDNEY, 21st August.

Boon after it came into power about oigfit months ago the Sciillin Labour Government did a great deal to promulgate the slogan, "Grow more wheat." It is evident now that this was heeded in every direction, for the latest official figures indicate that Australia's next harvest will be a record. ! If the price of wheat is as satisfactory as it now promises td be, this great harvest is going to go a long way towards putting the Commonwealth on- its feet again. New South Wales expects a crop of at least 70,000,000 bushels, South Australia's # crop should be in the vicinity of 50,000,000 bushels, Western Australia's 42,000,000 bushels, and even with only 'average yields, Victoria should ' harvest inoro than 65,000,000 bushels—a total of- 227,000,000 bushels. Tho best yield in the Commonwealth so far was in 1015-16, whon 179,066,000 'bushels' wore garnered. Australia's wheat yields for tho last six years are:— . ■ ' Season. Bushels., 1924-25 .......„.. 164,559,000 1925-26 .„.-.„..-. 114,504,000 1926-27 ........ 160,762,000 1927-28 ........ 118,800,000 1928-2 D ......... 118,000,000 t 1928-29 226,477,600 Latest unofficial reports say that good spring rains will bring South Australia's total nearer 50,000,000 bushels than the 40,000,000 now expected. The area under crop is estimated at 4,440,000 acres. In the record year, 1917, only 2,778,000 acres were cropped, and the yield was 43,750,000. Officials in the Now South Wales Department of Agriculture believe that that State's 70,000,----000 bushel crop will be worth £14,000,----000; although 14,000,000 bushels of wheat have been carried over from last year. Australia sees some hope for the future as the present season seems to be a most favourable one for the man on the land. Three more such seasons aro needed. Is that asking too much?