WHEAT PRODUCTION
Sir,—The Hon. J. G. Barclay taj others are asking farmers to grow more wheat. This is no time to ask te wheat. Someone said that they started this six months ago. I suppose they told the Primary Production Counca, and they don’t report these meetings, so we know nothing about it. • It take* about six months from the time grafca land is skimmed until it is sown in wheat at the beginning of May. so that is six months behind. Mr Barclay said he would do everything to help the wheatgrower. They admit • they have had 72 applications for tractor-drivers and -I cannot find where they ..have supplied one. I know a farmer grows 200 acres of wheat and he his only had a man for one weekjlnce the beginning of February.' /They cannot supply him with a man.\ so h* will not be able to grow one acre d| wheat, and there are plenty of others in the same position.—Yours, etc., WHEATGROWER.-
April 24. 1943. [Commenting on this letter the Min. ister of Agriculture (the Hon. j/ (j, Barclay) says: “Both the Hon. Minister of Supply and I have, on various oc« casions during the last six months in addressing meetings and through thd press, asked farmers to grow morn wheat.”]
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23942, 8 May 1943, Page 6
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