MUMMY WHEAT.
promfic dunedin yield. (By Telegraph. —Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this clay. The mummy wheat which was sown ae an experiment in a Dunedin suburb last year is now harvested and threshed. It has produced an almost uubeli'-vable vield, at the rate of lfiO bushels to the acre ' which is considered good enough to warrant a trial on a commercial scale. The seed was grown in India under the direction of the Indian Government, and it was from a consignment which was sent to England for sale after the Indian authorities had proved the value of the when,t for bread making that the Dunedin man, whose hobby is botany, bofight his small parcel,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 11
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113MUMMY WHEAT. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 11
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