The quality of oats in the county this season, said an Ashburton grain merchant the other morning, is not up to the standard of previous years, and the average yield will be from 10 to 20 bushels an acre less than last season (says the Guardian) . The wheat yield compares favourably with that of last season, which was an: exceptionally good one, and the average yield should be about 33 bushels to the acre. A 100-acre crop of Tuscan wheat at Winchmore yielded 64 bushels, while in the Wakanui district several crops have yielded up to 60. while others have produced aboat 55. Only one really bad yield has been reported so far, a 60acre crop of wheat yielding only 32 bushels to the acre.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 30
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