_ A practical farmer from Wanganui district was a recent visitor to (South Australia. Talking to a farmer in a railway train, he ascertained that it cost 22s yd an aero to produce a crop of wheat. A conference of farmers fixed tho price at 29e .3d, but this allowed for leaving tho land fallow for a year. In conversation with an official in the Department of Agriculture the Now Zealander said that, exclusive of threshing, the cost hero was about £2 133 6d, and tho threshing cost was •counterbalanced by the returns from sales of straw. “ How on earth do you live ? ” asked the Australian in wonder, and mentioned that even in Australia, with its lower cost of production, there wore no fortunes in growing wheat, ten bushels to the acre, at 33 a buahel.” Then came the turn of the New Zealander. “Just reckon 60 bushels to the acre, aDd see how that suits.” It was a bit of a staggerer.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1947, 1 December 1906, Page 4
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