NEW ZEALAND WHEAT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3246, 25 November 1881, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND WHEAT.

The New York Produce Eeportor, of September 10th, has the following emphatic testimony to our Wow Zealand wheat: — " Last winter we imported from Adelaide, South Australia, via San Francisco, and overland by rail, some 1500 bushels of heavy oats for the Agricultural Department at Washington for distribution for seed purposes, and as will be seen from an advertisement in another column of Messrs I. Williams and Son, 15 Stone-street, this city, they now have for sale 1700 bushels of seed wheat from the same quarter. And we have received from Auckland, New Zealand, per barque Thames, a bag of the handsomest while wheat we ever laid eyes on. The sender, John Lamb, Esq., Wai tern at a Mills, writes us that the average yield of this grain in New Zealand often reaches 40 bushels per acre. The average yield of wheat in

this country in the most prolific seasons is under 15 bushels. Who believes that the climate and soil of New Zealand for wheat growing purposes are as much better than those of our fertile lands as 40 is greater than 15 ? We shall be pleased to send a small sample of this New Zealand wheat to all who may apply for it, but only on the honourable understanding that it shall be used solely for seed purposes. One pint would seed tho one hundreth part of an acre, and if the yield be as good as in New Zealand, the product would be forty-one hundreths of a bushel, and this returned to the soil should give a proportionote increase, or, say sixteen bushels, and that quantity would see 40 acres the third year. The resistant qualities of these Australian and New Zealand wheats from rust, are said to be very great, and we again respectfully urge upon our readers the importance of giving the grain a fair trial on American soil."