WHEAT HARVEST

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1933, Page 7

WHEAT HARVEST

THIS YEAR’S BIG YIELD. TEN MILLION BUSHELS. The total yield of wheat for the season 1932-33 should be approximately 10,000,060 bushels, as against an actual yield of 6,582,698 bushels for the previous season, according to a return published in the Gazette last evening. The following table shows the estimated average yields per acre of wheat oats and barley for the season 1932-33: Wheat Oats Barley Bushels Bushels Bushels per per per

ed for the five seasons ended with 193132 averaged 24.28 per cent, of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion is threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 4,350,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 2,818,152 bushels for the season 1931-32. On a similar assumption in regard to barley, the total yield of grain should be approximately 470,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 537,398 bushels for the season 1931-32.

District Acre Acre Acre North Island ... 34.64 39.76 46.66 Nelson 30.00 32.87 30.00 Marlborough .... 34.87 35.21 30.00 Canterbury 34.82 44.29 32.06 Otago 33.44 38.79 37.24 Southland 40.49 48.59 35.00 Average (estimated) for the Dominion, season 1932-33 34.70 44.14 34.33 Average (actual) for the Dominion, season 193132 24.49 41.03 29.45 The area from which oats were thresh-