WHEAT AND OATS.
ESTIMATED AREA UNDER CROP. Following the procedure adopted last . year (says the Government Statistician in his monthly abstract of statistics) cards have again been sent out by post to grain growers in the Dominion asking them to •state the areas they had sown or proposed to sow in wheat and oats lor the present season. The cards returned have been tabulated, - * and, on the results obtained, an estimate has been based of the total areas sown or to be sown. The estimates are subjoined. Wheat and oats. —Approximate areas, 1916-17, and areas estimated as sown or to be sown, 1917-18: AREAS, 1916-17. Wheat. Oats. Acres. Acres. For thrashing ..''.. .. 217,700 17,494 For chaffing, etc 3,720 . 354,496 Total harvested ..- .. 221,420 531,990 Not harvested 2,871 32,736 Grand total 224,291 564,726 AREAS, 1917-19 (Estimated). North Island .. .... 9,932 49,155 South Island 284,013 435,082 Total .. 293,945 484,237
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Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 12
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144WHEAT AND OATS. Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 12
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