CEREAL AND POTATO CROPS.
OFFICIAL ESTIMATES. As in previous years cards were sent out by post to grain-growers, and to potato-growers throughout the Dominion, asking them to state what acres they had sown or planted or intended to sow or plant in wheat, oats, and potatoes this season. Hie Goernmciit ytatistican now reports:Areas, 1921-25 (estimated) : IV. O. North Island 3,000 55,000 South Island ... 167,000 -125,000 Total acres ... 170,000 180,000 Tabulation . of statistics for potatoes gives the following results: area estimated as planted or to be planted, 1924-1925 : North Island 6,000 South Island 18,000 Total for Dominion 24,000
On the. average of the last live seasons (viz., 5.58 tons per acre) the total estimated yield from this area should approximate !:!'!.920 tons, as against 105,552 tons last season. Only holdings of one acie and over outside borough boundaries arc covered by these figures. In the ease of potatoes a fair amount is grown on the smaller holdings and on holdings situated within boroughs. The area in wheat last year totalled 178,652 acres, and ip. oats, 417,J0T acres.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 17 November 1924, Page 10
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176CEREAL AND POTATO CROPS. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 17 November 1924, Page 10
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