SEED WHEAT FROM CANADA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2400, 4 March 1915, Page 8

SEED WHEAT FROM CANADA

A SOUTHERN SUGGESTION, tV*-.".' Southern, grain, growers are inquiring j*' among themselves the "import*; ed Canadian wheat will bo made avail-[;;-'-al>l£ to' them for-'seed purposes. They r ;./areTof opinion.that seed from a oold to r a farmer gives improved • ref suits. , r : ' 1 • . "New Zealand," said one authority, • "badly needs a change of seed, and t- . Buei .an- opportunity -of getting a f change, by means of Canadian seed may never occur again. .Wo could takQ tho r 'whole . .. . v . ■ Somo farmers suggest tfcattne seed would perhaps need acclimatising, and; . . they also mention tho possibility of its having been kiln dried, _ which would kill <its germ. Thejf consider, the ;Gov- • oruraent could cable to clear up tho • Hatter point. .What is" suggested "is 5 ' known that the wheat is availably to j/; farmers-for seed, and- invito- -applica-. • . lions. This would,, release , equal quan^ I tihcs of New Zealand wheat ; already. |if" ; 3iarvested,ybut being held back for seed, j; > action is considered necessary If;'. to avoid all the wheat.':.being',: milled. j\- : -New 'Zealand will probably .sow"; 600,000, I;- v jwhoat- se^-tfois-^eason.