FOOD FOR BRITAIN
Sir,—What pitiful reading your report of the meeting of the North Canterbury . Production Council makes. Why this untruth? “All sections of producers aredissatisfted with costs and prices”? They are not From experience and records kept I state that an acre of wheat can be put in, in good order, on an average farm by up-to-date methods in three hours, and that is 300 hours for 100 acres. It can be harvested at the rate of up to five acres an hour with the 12 feet headerharvester, especially on borderline land. The Minister of Agriculture has decided not to-interfere with the producers, but has given them a target instead, It is a farmers’ job. Farmers, financial bankers, and mortgagees are interested 'in each farm. Let the expenses and profits be pooled. Sufficient men and machinery and land are available to produce all we are asked to produce. We are only wasting precious time.—Yours, etc., T. E. PEARSON, Hororata, June 9, 1944.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24280, 10 June 1944, Page 6
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