ENGLAND'S FOOD SUPPLY.
BRIGHT PROSPECTS
(Rec. May 30j 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 29 It is officially estimated that since 1916, two and a half million acres have been added to tilled lands in England and . Wales, three hundred thousand acres in Scotland, and one and a half million acr«a in Ireland. The wheat acreage is increased 39 per cent .potatoes 50 per cent. It is estimated that if the yield reaches the average, the next harvest will supply forty weeks' supply of bread with an additional half a million tons of animal foodstuffs.' The .harvest of 1916 supplied only eleven "* weeks' supply of bread, and the 1917 harvest * thirteen weeks. • :
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Grey River Argus, 31 May 1918, Page 3
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110ENGLAND'S FOOD SUPPLY. Grey River Argus, 31 May 1918, Page 3
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