WHEAT YIELDS
EXPERIMENTAL WOIIK. (From Ouh Own Correspondent ) \\ ELL IN Li JON, Jul> 20. The .ulwsibility 01 improving tnc rtheat julJs> oi Ui" South Island v Jo i\u.=od lat>l vvoi.lv. b> Ml Pcijiic, who qiiotid .1 paia--iidj.»!i iioiu tlio Otogi Da,il> itconl■jiiListarlul j'lllcs> ol wheat. 10-c!ay the lion. JMr ll..ci!o!i ild replied as follow^: —*" 'J hi' statement in tl.c Ot.iso i),u\y Times is not b.is>ed on .uiy odicul Feu jiolds ot oU buslifls oi over lu\o been reconkd in the > Uij ;. Tho dcpiTtnunt o conliu.urg tho \.ork of th" .ux-lmuitiaiition of imported \aiK'ti.s o! uhe.it- .it ihe ixperimejital art*, ainl has taken t-teps to produce p'iro lines of high \ieldmjr strains of ct.l ib-b.h'-i cultural ai u fcitilixing means iiiciLiiing yields arc <ilso being tested. Th" n iiilti of experiments Villi nitf.itrs eoiHiiuted in the tvhe.il sji-ow-i,i', distiicu ot the bouth Ibljtul moieato ,ihno-.t witliout o\c plion that jicld- oimiol be improted m tins wjv.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16752, 21 July 1916, Page 3
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