AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14643, 22 February 1918, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

WHEAT AND OATS CROP

The following estimated average yields per acre of wheat and oats for ] the- season 1917-18 have been compiled . by the Government Statistician from' ; reports furnished by the Fields Inspectors of the Department' of Agriculture j throughout the Dominion, and are now published for general information. Wheat. Oats. Bushels Bushels District. per acre, per acre. Auckland 27.26 31.40 Hawke's Bay "... 25.47 30,17 Taranaki ... .v. 21.58 30.23 Wellington , 24.59 30.59 Nelson ... ... 22,90 31.99 Marlborougk ... 22.05 35.64 Canterbury ... ... 27.04 30.31 Otago ... ... 29.92 . 39.57 Southland ... ... 30.00 42.38 Average (estimated) for tie Dominion . season 1917-18 ... 27.35 35.26 I Average (actual) for the Dominion, sea- , son 1916-17 ... 23.19 30.26 According to the above estimates, the total yield of wheat for the Dominion shoUd .be approximately 7,500,0U/| bushels, as, against ar. actual yield of j 5,051,227 bushels in 1917. The' yield of oats is much harder to estimate, as the proportions of the harvest respectively threshed and chaffed depend to a great extent on market conditions. In 1916-17, 31.44 per cent, of the oat crop' was threshed, and if the same percentage obtains this year the yield _ of grain should be approximately 5,368,000 bushels. The-oats threshed last season yielded 5,371,436 bushels. The growth and condition of the crops ir.. the Nelson district is reported to be much better than last year.