FARMING NEWS.
RURAL MAKINGS. “The quality of butter in New South Wales has improved very much,” said Mr G. H. Abel, of Auckland, who has returned after a stay of five weeks ill Australia. Officials in tho butter industry were keenly interested in new plans that would lead to improving the quality. New South Wales'’ was producing a higher proportion of first-class butter than New. Zealand. Maize crops throughout the Gisborne district were fiattcncTed Jest week by a strong wind, accompanied by heavy rain. The crops had made excellent progress and had attained such a great height that they were easily bent down. The estimated average yield of wheat in the Dominion for the' season 1934-35 is 29 bushels an acre, as against an actual return of 31.56 bushels an acre last season, according to figures published in the Gazette. The wheat area is estimated to be only 77 per cent of that for 1933-34. and the total yield for flic current season is expected to be approximately 6,500,000 bushels, compared with an ascertained yield of 9,036,017 bushels last season. The estimated yield of oats is 37 bushels an acre, as against an actual yield of 41.39 bushels last season, and the total yield is expected to be approximately 2,670,000 bushels, compared with 3,242,500 bushels.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 65, 13 February 1935, Page 5
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215FARMING NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 65, 13 February 1935, Page 5
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