GRAIN-GROWING INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1464, 12 June 1912, Page 8

GRAIN-GROWING INDUSTRY.

TROUBLE WITH THRESHING MILLS. Farmers are experiencing considerable trouble in consequence of the fewness of threshing machines operating, and the bad weather preventing mill-owners from getting the most out of their plants, eays the Feilding correspondent of the "Manawatu Daily Times." The position, according to 'one. farmer, is serious, and many farmers who increased their cropping areas have been hit heavily through being unable to. got the benefit of their orope. Another trouble is that the mill operators have to be ixiid by the day instead of by the bushel, as formerly, and growing for seed has proved disastrous to all in consequence. Howover, better provision is to be made for next year.- A number of . farmers throughout the district are combining and importing from Canada small threshing machines which can be operated euccp.ssfully by means of a small oil engine. The heavy expense involved in employing labour under prevailing conditions is a setback, and it is claimed that tho introduction of small threshing machines will prove as important to the seed growing industry as' the milking machines have bsen to dairying. The threshing machine owners maintain that though they have been anxious to operate on the thousands of bushels of oats a.nd barley waiting for them, the bad weather makes it impossible in many instances to get the plant across the pad- ., docks; One mill-owner pays .that bad and careless stack building is mainly respon-, viblc for many of the farmers' big losses. f\nck after stack has been found completely saturated and the grain spoiled.