TRANSPORT OF WHEAT
Sir, —“Farmer’s” way to solve the transport problem was to work railways. mills, and sheds the round of the clock, in shifts employing tens of
thousands of extra men. Now he tells us it would be difficult to get five men to stock and stack a bit of wheat. If I obeyed, he. says, I would store my wheat on the farm, as did, a farmer I know. He left 1900 sacks in the paddock for seven weeks, and the bottoms fell out of the lot. If that farmer had done as I suggested and dumped his wheat against two stacks and covered it direct from the elevators with straw, not with wheat, as “Farmer’* was talking of doing, all that wheat would have been saved. “Farmer” says it does not pay to grow it. No wonder! —Yours, etC ” C.V.H. January 23, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23858, 29 January 1943, Page 6
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