Looking After The Wheat
TT is to the credit of far■lmers that not many sacks of wheat are to be seen lying in paddocks these days. In other words farmers are generally taking care of wheat that is still on farms.
In the photograph above is a tidy stack of 700 sacks on the property of Mr J. G. Hansen at Chertsey, in Mid-Can-terbury. This wheat is for May delivery. It was actually harvested in bulk and then bagged off from a bulk bin in the paddock over the fence from the wheat crop. The sacks then
needed only moving slightly by front-end loader to be put into the stack that is shown in the photograph.
The sacks are off the ground on pallets made on the place out of 61n by 2in and 4in by 2in treated pine timber.
The stack is covered by jute covers and some rat poison has been put out around the stack as a precaution, although as yet there has been no sign of damage from vermin.
It will be noted that a cover is lying on the uncovered sacks in the foreground.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 9
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189Looking After The Wheat Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 9
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