OUR GRAIN PRODUCTS
AN INDUSTRY; THAT HAS FALLEN ; . OFF. _ ''There is only one farming.industry liv New Zealand that has fallen off, and that is grain-growing,',' said Mr. E. Campbell (retiring president) at the A. and l'. Societies' Conference on.Tuesday. . , Continuing, he.said that,for some years past the acreage:under",grain had-been getting less and less. The cause, -no ■ doubt, was that we had not been' able to compete.with new countries,, such as the. Argentihe 'and North-West' Canada, to say nothing of Australia; but he believed that it .was only .a .swing .of the pendulum. The day was not far distant when these new lands would become; worn out, and would require to be fed with manure; as was found liecessary in the United States, and if the .world was ablo to consume'all the grain .grown at-the: present time, what would it do,in ten years or-.more, when there were no now countries'to open up? Then would the', plains of: Canterbury once again be seen under ' the plough, notwithstanding the increased cost of production.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2215, 30 July 1914, Page 5
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169OUR GRAIN PRODUCTS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2215, 30 July 1914, Page 5
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