MAIZE PLUCKING
HAND METHOD OUTDATED
MECHANICAL DEVICE SOUGHT
The 'sticky' nature of the maize growing question (as the chairman put it) was being discussed at the annual meeting of Rangitaiki suppliers l last Wednesday when Mr A. C. Ran>by took the subject' by the nose •and declared that if farmers could l be assured of an efficient method of plucking at a reasonable cost there would be no trouble about planting as many acres as the Government required. "We should get hold of the machinery to do this work, and never mind the hand' plucking," he said. There are such machines iand if we can be guaranteed' that they will be made available, I'm sure I could get you 500 acres to-morrow. He added! that he understood the. plucking machine cost about £500.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 3, 11 September 1942, Page 5
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133MAIZE PLUCKING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 3, 11 September 1942, Page 5
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