WHEAT SOWINGS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18408, 15 June 1925, Page 10

WHEAT SOWINGS.

* AFFECTED BY WEATHER. The worst effect of tho broken weather from an agricultural standpoint is that further winter wheat sowings on heavy land will be practically impossible. The" prospects a month ago were that there would bo a very ready response tj the appeal to grow more wheat, tho enquiry for seed wheat from merchants, the brisk salo of fertilisers and tho reduced offerings of wheat of growers to millers, besides the numerous fields of lea ground being turned over being good grounds for this assumption. June is as late as farmers like to sow winter wheat, and practically all kinds of tillage work have had to be suspended this month on account of the frequent and heavy rains. The heavy soils will bo cold and unworkable for some time, and any pronounced augmentation of the area will be dependent on the spring operations. Spring sowing is not generally favoured on account of the uncertainty of tho season, but it is possible that the prices fixed will assist to overcome some of the objections, particularly with the easier market that has developed for sheep. When the Government made a special appeal some years ago for farmers to grow more wheat, the response was with spring sowings, and the biggest yield for years was the result.