ESTIMATED AREAS UNDER WHEAT AND OATS.
The appended statement was issued by the -Government Statistician, under date 31st October,. 1917 : ’■ ". . ’ ' - ■
' ■ Following the procedure adopted last year, cards have again been sent out by post to grain-growers in the Dominion asking them to state the areas they had sown or proposed to sow in wheat and oats for the present season. The cards returned have been tabulated, and on the results obtained an estimate has been based of the total areas sown or to be sown. The estimates are subjoined.
Areas, 1916-17: — For threshing ■ .. For chaffing, &c. . . ... Wheat. ■ Acres.' ■ ' ■ . . 217,700 3-7 2 ° Oats. Acres. 177,494 354,496 Total harvested .. 221 ,420 531,990 Not harvested ... • , ,871 32,736 Grand total . . ’ 224,291 564,726 Areas, 1917-18 (estimated): — North Island 9,932 49,155 South Island '. . .. 284,013 435,082 Total . . .. . . • • 293,945 484,237
WHEAT AND OATS.-APPROXIMATE AREAS, 1916-17, AND AREAS ESTIMATED A S sOWN OR TO BE SOWN, 1917-18.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XV, Issue 5, 20 November 1917, Page 302
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148ESTIMATED AREAS UNDER WHEAT AND OATS. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XV, Issue 5, 20 November 1917, Page 302
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