LESS WHEAT SOWN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19128, 24 September 1936, Page 3

LESS WHEAT SOWN

AREA IN ASHBURTON ! ] CROPS LOOKING WELL i ! The view that the wheat area will® ' be .smaller this year is borne out by ’ observations made by Mr. R. McGii- ' livray, holds superintendent of the 'Department of Agriculture, who has I returned to Christchurch after a tour .| of the Ashburton district. He said the wheat crops seen in the Ashburton i County in most places were looking well, except in some of the heavier, country, where the land was rather too i damp. ■ The general opinion of farmers, i however, was that their areas would i bo less by front d to 10 per cent. The ’ land was well supplied with moisture, and it was possible that yields would ; Ite high, but other fanners lmd stared : that the amount of min that had : fallen tip to the present made it possible thut the weather would be dry j during the latter portion of the. year. “If is probable,’’ said Mr. MeGillivray, “that wheat has been sown later in some parts of the Ashburton ■ County than has been the case for a long time, ami in a dry district likey Ashburton the crops would suffer if, dry weather set in during the next , month or two. In these circumstances, a high yield could not lie expected.”