SEASON'S WHEAT CROP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 10

SEASON'S WHEAT CROP.

I ESTIMATE OF AREA SCWN, INCREASE OF 93,687 ACRES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Friday. mates prepared by the Government! Statistician as the result of cards sent to grain growers, show that there is a dacrease of 93,687 acres in the area sown ia ; wheat compared with the area last season. |Details are : North Island, 5000 acres; j South Island, 180,000 acres. Particulars : are given of varieties sown and areas j -which do not make up the full totals given ! above, but sjito, in comparison with last season's estimates, to show approximately i the lessened wheat-growing in different | parts of New Zealand. There are decreases in all areas, these being : North Island, 3521 acres; Nelson. Marlborough and Westland. 1918 acres; Canterbury, 56,492 acres; Otago and Southland, 38,668 acres. A similar postal census regarding areas sown in oats indicates 55,000 acres in the North Island, and 390,000 acres in ths South Island: total 445,C00 acres, showing j an increase of 23,928 acres. The areas planted in potatoes this year are: North Island, 5500 acres.-; South Island, 11,000 acres; total, 16,500 acres, compared with . 20,197 acres last season, The estimated yield from the current crop is 93,720 tons, compared with last season's yield, of 113,8C0 tons.