PUT IN WHEAT!

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10415, 5 June 1925, Page 6

PUT IN WHEAT!

BECOMING A NATIONAL COMPANY Now that payable prices have been fixed, and tho arrangement ratified by the Government, it is expected that farmers with suitable land will put in every acre they possibly can in wheat this year. It is natural to expect a country like this to grow enough wheat for its own consumption, and the uncertainty last year as to the price that would be paid may be taken as the reason for the shortage that occurred with the last harvest. Now that prices are fixed—Tuscan 6s ad per bushel, Hunters 6s 7d, and Pearl 6s 9d —for the 1926 harvest, this excuse no longer exists. At 6s 5d a bushel, even a. IV) bushel crop will give a gross return of £9 12s 6;1 an acre, and it is V ifr wi t*\M Primers will rise to "the i ;■'.■■••• '(it, and s.e that there is no substiuitinl short" - r - in 1926. Another shortag: world b? taken to mean that farmers could not, or would not, wrow wheat, and in that eventuality, # it is unlikely that any further assistance would be forthcoming from the Government or anybody else. On the other hand, a wheat production approaching the 8.000,000 bushels required annually in this country, would cement what has already been done to encourage wheat-growing in the Dominion, and tend to put future wheat-growing on a firmer and more satisfactory basis for the future.—Advt.