Increased Wheat Yield.
An estimated average yield of 33 Ix'sliols an acre is expecled from (he current season’s wheat crop, as compared with an actual yield lasl season of 29. id bushels, according to official figures. The yield of oals is estimated at 44 bushels an acre, and that of barley at 30 bushels, as compared with an actual yield of 47.86 bushels and 40.03 bushels respectively for lasl season. In accordance with the above estimates, the total yield ol wheat for the season 1939-40 should be approximately 8,370,000 bushels, as against an ascertained yield of 0,004,136 bushels for the season /1938-39. The area from which oats were threshed for the five seasons ending with 1938-39 averaged 20 per cent, of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is tb-reshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 2,240,000 bushels for the season 1938-39. On a similar assumplion in regard to barley, the total yield of grain should lie approximately 870,000 bushels, as against 1,070,774 bushels for the season 1938-39.
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Franklin Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 18, 16 February 1940, Page 4
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176Increased Wheat Yield. Franklin Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 18, 16 February 1940, Page 4
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