WHEAT GROWING.

Lake County Press, Issue 2669, 15 February 1917, Page 5

WHEAT GROWING.

In a letter to the Farmers’ Union Advocate, Mr Geo. W. Lead ley says : We are not entire strangers to the system of bounty-fed industries, and if it is desirable to save the wheat-crow-ing industry to the State, something very substantial will have to be offered as an inducement. The tactics pursued by the Government during the last two years have been about the worst that could have been conceived in so far as relates to the wheat question. My idea is that if the Government are in earnest about this matter it should adopt a system of bounties on a basis of say five shillings per bushel, on an average yield of say twenty-five bushels per acre, which would give a gross return of £6 5s per acre. If bread is a shilling a loaf I shall not be surprised ; and tho responsibility for it will lie at the door of the Government of New Zealand.