WORLD’S WHEAT SUPPLY.
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION.
(Received 22, 9.15 a.m) Sydney, April 22. Id the course of a speech by Pn>fessor Watt, agricultural expert, of Sydney University, on the growth of wheat, he said that to a. large extent it would depend on the predominance of the white race, whose staple food it was. As the result of scientific investigations it was perfectly certain that the N.S. Wales two million acres of wheat' area could be increased to twenty million acres,, and e better varieties and better farming would increase the average yield. He added that Sir William Crook, -m predicting that all the lands in the world capable of growing wheat would be required by 1931 to sup ply the needs of the white population, had not allowed for Jhe fact that science could make it possible in Australia to grow wh«-at in areas where the rainfall, was below 20in. per annum.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 110, 24 April 1911, Page 5
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