Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1223, 18 March 1880, Page 3

Teat allowed, and all this with no seeming iojory to the Isnd and no deterioration in the quality or quantity of the produce. Such is the amazing proliticncss of these American wheat-fields. WHEAT AT 4s 6D FER. BTTSHELIt is believed, and has indeed been often stated, that in this country a farmer mast obtain at least 03 a bushel to make a crop of wheat remunerative, and at that figure he will also require a good crop. But in the northwestern states they have to be content with far less than that amonnt. The correspondent of the Times says " that corn grown in Minnesota can be delivered at an English port for thirty-five shillings and fourpence a quarter, and will so yield a good profit all round to growers, earners, shippers, agents, and all others concerned with it." Unless the returns are always first-rate, it i 3 difficult to understand how the growers of wheat can make it pay at so very low a figure. And yet it is asserted that they will have a good profit. 2fot long since I noticed a certain newspaper warning the farmers of England that they must be prepared to grow wheat mt 403 a quarter. The Times cautions British farmers thus The rivalry of North-Western America ought to find our farmers not unprepared to meet it. They at least know what they must expect, in what way they are threatened by it, and how they can best guard themselves against its possibly disastrous results. Mr. Gladstone suggests that they might do well to grow less corn and more fruit and vegetables, just as the farmers in the Atlantic States have been doing in a very similar case to theirs, and that there ought at all events to be nothing in their leases to forbid them from making the change. They will probably prefer for the present to keep to their old courses, and will pin their hope on the chance of better weather next year than they have had this year •or last. We may be quite sure they will succeed sooner or later in getting a good •crop of wheat where wheat is traditionally •due. But if it i*3 to be sold after all for 53s 4d a quarter, or even at some lower Tate which home plenty will bring after it, it will hardly pay expenses." The intelligence concerning what can be accomplished in producing wheat in these faroff States is of the deepest interest to wheat* growers both here and in other countries. Though not in the same degree, the New Zealand and the British farmer will be each affected by the fact that the cereal can be grown and sold at so cheap a rate. The English wheat market governs the world, and if the .standard price in the future is not About to exceed on the average 3s 6d per ibushel, producers will be compelled to arrange their plans accordingly. At the test, wheat-growing may be looked upon as a somewhat precarious business. The Dalrymple3, of St. Paul, who some years ago were amongst the most extensive growers of wheat, raising as much as 40,000 bushels in a year, seem to have gone to the wall. A writer in 3n American papersays :—"The largest wheat producer in California, or in the world, i 3 Dr. J. Glenn. He was formerly from Monroe County, Missouri. He 13 a man of gTeat enterprise and energy. Hi 3 ranche lies in Colusa County, and comprises 60,000 acres, nearly all arable land. He has this year 45,000 acres in wheat, which, at a law calculation, will produce 900,000 busheis. His wheat will sell for 85 cents per bushel, or 765,000 dollars. Dr. Glenn has been farming ten years, and one would suppose he ousht to have a handsome sum to his credit in bank ; but what with a failure of crops—which occurs two years in every five—and the enormous interest he pays on hi 3 loans, he is said to owe a round million of dollars. Last year hi 3 credit was bad, as he had no crop. Now, with his splendid crop in prospect, he will probably get out. Another large wheatraiser is D. M. Reavis, whose land lies on the borders of Colusa and Butte Counties. He is also from Monroe County, Missouri, and ha 3 an unpretending little estate of 15,000 acres, 13,000 of which are in wheat, which he thinks will average this year 30 bushels, or 390,000 bushels. He i 3 also hard-pressed, and, I am told, is paying 0 per cent, on a couple of hundred thousand dollars of borrowed money."

WILL WHEAT-GEOWISG PAT 1 That is the question farmers have to take into consideration- Some who have been trying wheat thi*3 last season, who3e crops have not got the top price, will unhesitatingly say it will not pay. Others who have had tolerable crop 3 will be of opinion that at the price received for their wheat, after paying all expenses, the crop ftaa barely cleared the cost of producing jt. I dare say not a few wheat-growers, taking into account various circumstances, have resolsrad to sow grass in the place of wheat. And it is more than probable that next aea&on the area of land in -wheat in this part of the country will be diminished in quantity. It is, as a matter of course, deeply to be regretted if wheat is only to be produced at a los 3 to the growers, but with the present rate of labor, the price paid for fertilisers, the fi«fclenes3 of the weather, and other things that might be mentioned, it is difficult to see how wheat can be grown, at least in Auckland Province, at a price under 5s a bushel. This is a matter well worthy of being discussed in farmers' cluba.

It is important that the farmers of thi3 district Bhoolil be made aware of the fact that there is no colonial coal so well-adapted to the purposes for which, they require such fuel as that of Shag Point. It is cleaner, cheaper, and more economical than any other coal, either foreign or colonial, for threshing machines and their kindred purposes. Of this fact those who have used it bear the most satisfactory of all testimonies —they will now barn no other. It is delivered iu Oamaru by the truck load at iSa fid per ton. Orders may be sent to any coal dealer in Oamaru or to the pit, whence it will be sent promptly and direct to any aiding.—[Adyt.]

J.ATE ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ZEALAN D RAILWAYS. EASTER HOLIDAYS. ORDINARY Single-fare Tickets issued from any statin to any ata'im from Thursday, 25th inat. to Monday, 29th in»t. (inclusive), will be available for return any day up to, including, Wednesday, 31st inat. WM. CONYEBS, Commissioner of Railways. Commissioner of Railway** Office, Danedin, ITtk March, lfcSQ. 634 NOTICE OF MEETING OF JUSTICE?. To the Justices of Peace in the Jury District of Oamara. YOU are hereby requested to attend a MEETING of JUSTICES to Revise the J ary List for th« District oS Oaanaru, at the Resident Magistrate's Courthouse, Oamaru, at tea o'clock in the forenoo<vn, cn FkIDaY, the 2nd day of APRIL, ISSO. Dated this 18th day of Maroh. ISiO. W. G. FILLEUL, 639 Jury Officer. OAMAB.U STONE COMPANY" (limited). rpHE Second GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders in the above Company will b® held at the Company'* Office, Tyne**reet, at 8 o'clock on WEDNESDAY EVENING, the 24th INST. Business—To receive Directors* Report *nd Balance Sheet and declare Dividend; to elect two Directors and Auditors. By order of Director*. WALTER BOOTH, 6*5 Manager and Secretary,