CEREAL ACREAGE.
PRESENT SEASON’S ACREAGE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The estimates or acreages under wheat, oats and barley throughout th.e Dominion for the season 1932-33 is as follows, the actual returns for the previous year being given in parentheses: —-Wheat, 294,000 acres (280,602); oats, 407,000 (364,354); barley, 19,000 (27,040). The total acreage devoted to the growing of grain is 720,000, compared with 671,956 last season, an increase of 48,044 acres. In potato growing there is a reduced acreage of 2486, the total this season being 21,300 acres against 23,786 last season.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 8
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92CEREAL ACREAGE. Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 8
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