CROPS OF WHEAT

Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 10

CROPS OF WHE AT

CANTERBURY PROSPECTS Returns from the first threshing of wheat in the Waipara district, in Canterbury, indicate yields from 10 to 15 bushels to the acre lower than on the same farms last season. A few samples of new season’s wheat have been marketed. The quality is somewhat better than was expected, and the samples already offered are plump, clean, bright, and show good weight, ■ being from 621 b to 641 b to the bushel.. The samples are mostly from the Waipara district, in which threshing is usually done earlier than elsewhere in Canterbury. The yields are very disappointing, varying from 20 to 30 bushels to the acre, and' representing a decline in yield on individual farms of from 10 to 15 bushels. ' Indications are, however, that the general yield for Canterbury will be fairly good. The recent rains appear to have compensated for the damage done by frost and hail. It is probable that the fall in the yield per acre through dry weather will be confined more or kss_ to districts north of Rangiora. Crops at Methven are described as looking better than ever, and farmers in other districts where wheat has been cut remark upon the heaviness of the sheaves when being stooked. (The South Canterbury yield is expected to be good.