WHEAT AND OATS.
ESTIMATED AVERAGE YIELDS. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 17. The following estimated average yields per acre of wheat and oafs _for (he. current season have been made up from reports of fields inspectors of (he Department of Agriculture throughout flic Dominion:
Average (estimated) for season 1915-1 B . • • 21.89 33.-16 (actual) for season ' ‘ 1914-15 .... 28.94 39.77 According to above estimates the total yield fer the Dominion should be approximately as under, figures for the previous season being given for comparison : Estimated yields, Actual yields,
District. Wheat Oats Bushels Bushels par acre. per acre Auckland '• • . 25.55 24 95 Taranaki . 30.67 •13.61 Hawke's Bay . 2G.SS 46.49 Wellington . 32.34 37.02 Marlborough . 23.83 35.50 Kelson . 20.5 22.01 Canterbury . 20.54 24.83 Otago (portion) . . 24.44 34.21 Southland (portion . 38.00 50.00
101.>-16. 1911-15. Bushel?. Bushels. Wh*at , . 7.300,020 0,614,336 Oate . 12.722,73# 11,136,301
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17095, 18 February 1916, Page 8
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136WHEAT AND OATS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17095, 18 February 1916, Page 8
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