WHEAT
Sir,—Regarding Mr Carroll’s query, practically no wheat would be grown under the old harvesting methods. Farm and domestic labour would forbid. The crux of the matter is that wheat costing is based on the average Dominion yield, which is unfair to the lighter land wheatgrowers; yet if the required amount of wheat is to be grown, much of it must be grown on land that averages far beloyz the Dominion average. The remedy is to base prices on the poorest wheatgrowing lands, leaving Mr Nash to look after the returns from the high producing properties. Other factors militating against areas that used to be grown are lack of plough shares and other machinery, hand-to-mouth supplies of manure, lack of rolling stock, difficulties of quick repairs of harvesting machinery owing to 40-hour week, and discouragement by unduly heavy taxation, etc.—Yours., etc., V. WILKINSON. Mitcham, June 10, 1946. [Hiram Hunter may, if he wishes, briefly reply; otherwise this correspondence is closed.—Ed., "The Press.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24900, 13 June 1946, Page 6
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162WHEAT Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24900, 13 June 1946, Page 6
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