RECORD WHEATYIELDS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 258, 1 August 1928, Page 3

RECORD WHEATYIELDS

CANADIAN CLAIM DISPUTED

SOME canterbury . ’ RECORDS Dominion Special Service Auckland, July 31. Interesting facts and figures concerning wheat-growing records arc quoted by Mr. J. Grimwood, of Hamilton, in support of the writer of a letter in the "Herald” last Tuesday, in which reference. was made to what is claimed as a world’s record, by Mr. C. S. Noble, of Nobleford, Alberta. In 1927, Mr. Noble’s field of 1309 acres yielded 7 1,000 bushels, practically 57 bushels to the acre. “As one born in Canterbury, I can state that New Zealand can beat that record,” said Mr. Grimwood, “I cau remember a paddock of wheat of 10 acres between Rangiora and Woodend, North Canterbury, in ISB2-S3, when 114 bushels of wheat to the acre were threshed. I can also remember a field of 30 acres of oats a few miles south of Timaru, which yielded 130 bushels to the acre. In another field of oats grown on Oxford plains, I saw oats standing 7ft. high, and I helped to thrash the crop, which yielded 7G bushels to the acre.” Regarding the size of grain-growing farms, Mr. Grimwood states that Mr. Duncan Cameron, of Methven, held the record for New Zealand. “I think it was in IS9O that I was harvesting on the Holmes Estate, Methven, which was not far from Cameron’s estate, and he had 9000 acres in grain. Wheat, oats, and barley were there, but chiefly wheat was grown. In one field of wheat of 1000 acres, ’ bad 23 reapers and binders working. Over 200 draught horses were engaged in reaping and carting to the stacks,