TRANSPORT OF WHEAT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23849, 19 January 1943, Page 6

TRANSPORT OF WHEAT

Sir—“C.V.H.” states that I wandered off the subject—that it was not growing wheat he was writing about but transport. He immediately wandered away himself by talking of' cutting, stocking, and stacking wheat If he cuts, stocks, and stacks wheat he will want five men and he would find it very difficult to get them; and u he harvested it this way, he could not grow it at the money, no matter how, patriotic he was. “C.V.H.” asked what I would do, if the Government insisted that half the wheat must be stored on the farm. If I obeyed I would have to do the same as a number of farmers had to do last season. I know a farmer who had 1900 sacks of wheat standing in the paddock for seven weeks, and when they came to cart it the bottoms fell out of the bags. I notice he has given up the wheat dump business, because he finds it would be a failure and he is now going to cut half his wheat instead.—Yours, etc., FARMER. January 16, 1943.