HEAVY WHEAT CROP IS REPORTED.
A very heavy crop of Tuscan wheat is reported to have been grown bv a small farmer in Upper Riccarton ' A seven-acre paddock threshed out 576 bushels, which works out at an average of approximately eighty-two bushels to the acre. As far as is known this is something of a record for the district.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18393, 20 February 1928, Page 12
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59HEAVY WHEAT CROP IS REPORTED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18393, 20 February 1928, Page 12
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