DOMINION CROPS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18844, 6 April 1931, Page 13

DOMINION CROPS.

GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES. Included In the February Abstract of Statistics Is a table showing the estimated average yields an acre of wheat, oats, and barley for the current season, compiled from reports furnished by stock inspectors of the Department throughout the Dominion. The figures are as follows: Wheat. Oats. Barley.

Average (estimated) for the Dominion season 1930-31 27.08 40.10 32.16 Average (actual) for the Dominion, season 1929-30 30.68 44.33 41.42 In accordance with the above estimates, 1930-31 should be approximately 6,500,000 the total yield c>f wheat for the season bushels, as against an actual yield of 7,239,556 bushels for the season 1929-30. The area from which oats were threshed for the five seasons ending with 1929-30 averaged 27.41 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 3.540,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 3,002,288 bushels for the season 1929-30. Barley threshed for the five seasons ending with 1929-30 averaged 97.99 per cent, of the total area under that crop. Assuming that a similar proportion i? threshed this year, the total yield of grain should be approximately 795,000 bushels, as against an actual yield of 755,007 bushels for the season 1929-30.

Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. North Island 34.48 38.83 33.96 Nelson 33.00 30.00 31.00 Marlborough 30.09 30.59 34.02 Canterbury 26.21 37.50 28.93 Otago 31.02 41.33 36.60 Southland 36.33 43.84 38.00