PUT IN WHEAT!

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 4 June 1925, Page 10

PUT IN WHEAT!

. ■ ')♦ 1 - •BECOMING A NATIONAL COMPANY. Now that payable prices have been fixed, and the arrangement ratified by the Government, it is expected that] fanners Vith suitable land will put in every aero they possibly can in wheat | ithis. year. It is natural te expect a country .like this to grow enough wheat for its. owii consumption, and the uncertainty last year as to the price that would he paid may be taken as the reason for the shortage that occurred with the last harvest. Now that prices are fixed—"Tuscan" 6s 6d per bußhel, "Hunters" 6s 7d, and "Pearl" 6s 9d—for the 1926 hairest, this excuse no longer exists. At 6s 5d a bushel, even a. 30 bushel crop will give a gross return of £9 12s 6d an acre, and it is hoped that farmers will rise to the occasion and . see that there is no substantial shortage in. 1926. Another shortage would be ta<ken to mean that fanners could not, or would not, grow wheat, and in that eventuality it is unlikely that any further assistance would he. forthcoming from the Government or anybody else. On the other hand, a. wheat production approaching the 8,000,000 required annually in this j countrywouH cement what has already heen done/ to «snoourage wheat-growing in the Dominion and. tend to pnt future a /firmer - and more eatisfactoryibaßis forthe future. —tt