WHEAT REQUIREMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 60, 11 March 1915, Page 7

WHEAT REQUIREMENTS.

APPEAL TO GROWERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", this day. The Board of Agriculture reminds farmers of the great necessity, in the interests of the Empire, that wheat areas should be largely augmented to ensure the crop of wheat in the coming season ireing sufficient to feed the people of New Zealand and leave enough for seed for the following season. At least 240.000 acres would require to -be sown. The area in wheat during the present season has been 189.000 acres, so that fifty thousand acres more would required to be sown in the coming season to ensure sufficient for the Dominion's use. Less would probably mean that we should have to buy outside, and from other countries possibly less favoured than ourselves. As the restriction as to price has been taken off by the Government, there is every reason to think prices will be remunerative. The Board also suggests that those who intend to sow wheat in the coming season should procure seed grown in the Dominion, as imported wheat requires considerable time to acclimatise, and generally jives unsatisfactory yields In the firsV season. The Board cautions farnrers, however, that the above area should not be deducted from the area usually devoted to oats; if this is done the oats and chaff grown would not be sufficient.