HIGH PRODUCTIVITY OF SOUTHLAND
EXCELLENT OAT YIELDS THIS SEASON Figures to show the high productivity of Southland were quoted last evening at a reception given to the party of visiting Otago farmers and their wives. Mr A. R. Johnston, president of the Southland provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, in discussing the high oat yields of Southland, said that the farm of Mr W. Mackenzie, East Chatton, had returned 101 bushels to the acre, and another known yield of 80 bushels to the acre would easily be surpassed when further returns came in.
A crop of wheat in the Knapdale district had threshed out at more than 60 bushels to the acre, Mr Johnston added.
More interesting figures were quoted by the president of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Dr A. F. Ritchie Crawfoi-d, who gave the following comparison of percentages of top-dressed land (100 representing the acreage of sown grasslands): Southland, 19; Otago, 5; Canterbury, 3. Southland used more lime than any other land district and had increased in the last five years its tonnage of phosphatic fertilizers applied to the land by 25,452. Of the 7,959,091 acres in Southland, 3,294,660 were occupied and 1,306,740 were cultivated, Dr Crawford added. The sheep population was 2,650,908 head, cattle 162,634, and dairy cows 76,737.
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Southland Times, Issue 23792, 14 April 1939, Page 6
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