WHEATGROWING
Sir,—ln these record-breaking days —record wool cheques, record shearing tallies, record wheat imports and so on—and while the vocal minority of Federated Farmers is busy “lobbying” for higher grain prices, it may possibly be ot interest to know that a farm property in Mid-Canterbury put in, in 12 consecutive working days, 224 acres of wheat, and 54 acres of peas. As the peas were double drilled, the area covered was 332 acres. There is no suggestion of a daily or hourly record—that can be left to high-powered tractors—but three varieties of wheat were sown in eight paddocks, and the peas in two paddocks, and only on one day was the drill going appreciably more than eight hours. The fortnightly total may be a record for the farm manager as well as for the two workmen who did tho arising. It could be that too many landowners today are dodging the work lequired to provid-? our daily bread.—Yours, etc., RAKAIA. July 11, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27091, 14 July 1953, Page 3
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