Square-head Wheat.
Mr John Strauchon, of Mataura, made a careful < xperiment lost ve-nr with this wheat against white velvet and purple Tuscan, nine acres of each. The square head yielded 44.10 bushels per ucre ; velvet, 50. 78; and Tuscan, i?3.p5. The trial was from land which'he had just purchaseo' from the £>'ew Zealand and Australian Land Company, near Mataura, and {ilwtisrhed during the first and second " weeks of September, and the s'-ed sown immediately the ploughing was fin is!j "d. square head is a new Miheat to most [ farmers, but it hus now be<m trk'd for | >everal years in .^outhhrnl with every success, an-1 this last year it has given entire b at isf action on several large farms in Ut.uyo and Canterbury, being fouud to withstand win ly and rainv 'wealh-r umcb better than the bulk of the better known varieties. The New Z aland sml Australian Land Company are so well pleased with it th»£ they are putting 1000 acres under it in Nonh this season.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 30, 14 August 1883, Page 3
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168Square-head Wheat. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 30, 14 August 1883, Page 3
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