AREAS UNDER CROP

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 52, 25 November 1919, Page 10

AREAS UNDER CROP

■The census cards- in connection with the. sowing;; of crop throughout the Dominion should now b? in the hand-i of {ho' Government Slafvs.'iei.iti', and it is to be honed that they will rwu bo available (writes "Agr'col.'t" in the "Farmers' :Trnipn Advocate''). It is a foregone conclusion that they will disclose a considerable lediicHon 'n tho area sown this .year.!.' The', weather is inrtiy to blame for'tliis, and the fuct that, wheat is not ',How looked upon ;>,= a payim.' proposition. One knows farmers who have not ;got lin' aere' in this year—mo who usually have eonsiderab'e areas under cereols. There is net much uso : n talking of eompuK-ion in the ma I ter of growing wheat. Th* only remedy for the problem is to depend ujyin Australia for our wipplies, or to so help iudustrv that farmers will Ik' Mire of i-r.me profit frcn ♦ho - industry. Tf canipnlsion were made tho policy, the North Island would lii've to come under any re-idat'oiis that might Tje' tlecided upw. The area of wheat there is-a. very small one indeed, I'lauge there'-are' areas' that are well e'ln.pt-d to "that" "bunch c f fa""'in". In the southern- n"l of this island there are c.lra distri'-f-s that cculd grov,- v.'heat quite as csily as ?<nrth Oiaga and Canterbury. Th"" v;on!<l have lo bp brought in. If all did the'r -In'.-, -'f vouM mean \ery little for each individual. "R'lf the briinf, of f l '® work, at nre-.-il fa 1 '? on certain portions of the South Island.