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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1935, Page 16

Apparently President Roosevelt has decided to relinquish his plan for restricting: the production of wheat in the United States. Cable messages report that the Agricultural Adjustment Commission has removed the restriction on the area planted with spring wheat, and a considerably larger area than last year will be sown this season. Early in 1933 legislation was passed in the United States providing for the reduction of wheat production to domestic requirements, and for the restoration of wheat prices. The plan aimed to reduce the sown acreage by 10 per cent, of the average for the previous three seasons, and to compensate farmers for their loss of production. Judging by the reduction in wheat production and the increase of prices, the plan was successful; but last year the combined effect of the restriction plan and a severe drought was rather too drastic, and the United States was obliged to in.port substantial quantities of wheat from Canada and the Argentine. A Tctbury (England) farmer has had one ewe present him with six lambs (five of which are living), and two others with three lambs each—l2 ambs from three ewes within a week.