GRAIN YIELDS

Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 14

GRAIN YIELDS

RETURNS OF PRESENT SEASON BELOW LAST YEAR [Per United Press Association,] WELLINGTON, February 11. The following estimated average of yields per aero of wheat, oats, and barley for the season 193 G-37 has been compiled from reports furnished by stock inspectors of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion : Bushels per Acre. Wheat. Oats. Barley.

The estimated average for the Dominion is: Wheat, 33 bushels; eats, 44 bushels; and barley, 3S bushels per acre. The above estimates may be compared with last season’s actual average yields, which were: Wheat, 35.63 bushels; oats 42.61 bushels; and barley, 36.08 bushels. In accordance with the above estimates the total yield of wheat for the season 1936-37 should be approximately 7,150,000 bushels, as against,an actual yield of 8,859,223 bushels for the season 1935-36. The area from which oats were threshed for five seasons ending with 1935-36 averaged 21 per cent, of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year the total yield of grain should bo approximately 2,700,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 3,302,642 bushels for the season 1935-36. On a similar assumption in regard to barley the total yield of grain should lie approximately 675,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 745,380 bushels for the season 1935-36.

North Island ... 31 39 43 Nelson 20 38 29 Marlborough ... 37 4G 43 Canterbury 34 39 42 Otago 34 39 42 Southland 41 51 49