WHEAT AND OATS.
DOMINION STOCKS CONSIDERABLY BELOW LAST YEAR. A census of stocks of wheat, flour and oats in the .Dominion, taken on November 29th, gives the following figures for the whole of the Domin•onj —Flour 8235 tons; milling wheat 1.074,30 y bushels; other than milling 112,332; in stack (estimated) 1419 bushels; oats in grain. 425,922 bush T sis; .in stack, for threshing 4496 bushels, for chaffing 11,686. In 1923 the amount of milling wheat m grain was 773,000 bushels higher Umn is. the case this year, while the amount of other than milling wheat is only one-third of what it was a year --go, while the amount in stack a vear ago was 45,727 bushels, while this year it is less than 1500. Three times' as many oats in grain were on hand a year ago. viz., 1.301,727 bushels, and 93,000' in stack, so that all figures have fallen considerably below those of last vear.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 December 1924, Page 9
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156WHEAT AND OATS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 December 1924, Page 9
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