WHEAT GROWING INDUSTRY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3993, 23 September 1930, Page 16

WHEAT GROWING INDUSTRY.

SUGGESTION TO INCREASE YIELD.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 18.

A suggestion that.wheat of inferior quality but high yield should be grown in some districts to be used for other than milling purposes was made by Dr O. Frankel at the meeting of the committee of the New. Zealand Wheat Re-

search Institute to-day. He said that j there were some districts, especially in I the North Island, where only inferior I wheat could be grown and where it was wanted for such purposes as poultry | feed. The high cost of transport could be avoided if it were grown in these districts. Cheapening the wheat would increase the demand for it. Increasing population was going to mean that all | the wheat grown in the South Island I could be absorbed there. He thought it ' was important to get wheats suitable for feeding purposes which could be grown easily. Dr F. W. Hilgendorf said he hesitated to support the idea. He thought there would always be sufficient inferior milling wheat for feeding purposes. Mr R. J. Lyon said the job of the institute was to go after milling quality. There was always a certain amount of wheat for other purposes. It would be a dangerous plan to encourage quantity rather than quality. A resolution was passed that the institute was not in favour of attention being given to the growing of high-yield-ing wheats.

A letter was received from the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., Hamilton, in reference to the maau- s facture of dried milk. It had adopted a new method advocated by the institute’s chemist (Mr H. E. West), with the result that a product had been obtained superior to anything that had been made before. The chairman said that as a result of Mr West’s tests the quality of dried milk for baking purposes had been greatly improved, and it was equal to ordinary or condensed milk. It was one of Mr West’s most important pieces of work providing an outlet for another dairy product.