WHEAT AND OATS.
DOMINION ESTIMATES. The following, estimated average yields per acre of wheat .and oats for the season 192-1-25 have been compiled from reports furnished by stock inspectors of the Department of Agriculture throughout the Dominion, and are now published for general information, states the Government statistician. (Mr. Malcolm Fraser):
for the Dominion season 1924-25 .... 30.62 38.08 Average (actual) for the Dominion, season 1923-24 24.01 30.77 In accordance with the above estimates (adds Air. Fraser), the total yield of wheat for the Dominion should be .approximately 5,000,000 bushels, as against an actual yield 'of 4,174,537 bushels for the .season. 1923-24. The percentage of oats threshed for the five .seasons ending with. 1923-24 was 27.67 of the total area, under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 5.000,090 bushels, as against an actual yield of 1,964.511 bushels for the season 1923-24.
Wheat. Oats. Bushels Bushels DL.s-t first per per Acre. Acre. North island l, 9.98 34.09 •Nelson 28.90 29.93 Marlborough 80.46 40.46 Canterbury 31.17 36.61 Otago 27.70 36.87 Southland 30.06 42 90 A ve i ’age (est u n at e d)
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 February 1925, Page 7
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