CROSS 7 WHEAT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20895, 26 November 1937, Page 10

CROSS 7 WHEAT

PRAISE FOR YIELD AND QUALITY (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, November 25. “Threshing returns for 1937 just published by the Government Statistician rhow a very satisfactory position regarding the new wheat called Cross ! 7, which has been produced by LinI coin College and the Wheat Research Institute,” said the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, in a statement issued today. ‘The area under this new wheat has increased from 1300 acres to 12,000 acres in a single year. The yield over the whole of New Zealand was 5.13 bushels an acre above that of Tuscan, the standard variety of the country, and it shaved some superiority of yield in 25 out of 27 counties or divisions of counties in which it was grown. It is probable that this good yield has keen largely due to the fact that Cross 7 has been sown on better I land, but it will obviously yield as well ■ as Tuscan under average conditions. I “The real advantage to the farmer I growing Cross 7 is the certainty of ! an average yield combined with much greater ease in harvesting. The adI vantage to the country as a whole and j indirectly to the farmer is that Cross

7 makes such good flour and produces so good a loaf that its cultivation will further improve the already high quality of common New Zealand wheats and will work toward the elimination of the necessity for importing foreign wheat for the sake of strengthening the flour of our standard varieties.”