Great Wheat Crop.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 October 1911, Page 4

Great Wheat Crop.

FINEST KNOWN IX ENGLAND FOR MANY YEARS. Inquiries amonc; Wiltshire millers and agriculturists elicit astonishing facts "with regard to the quantity and quality of this year's wheat. In 'both'respects is the harvest considered to lie a record within the memory of the present generation, and wheat has been early threshed and delivered to the mills fully 13 score 81b per sack—-a most unusual weight. The standard average weight of the English wheat is reclcoiiiiivl p.t 031b per bushel, or 2n2\h per sack. The wheat referred to he-re is 208W) to tl'.e sack, equalling: f)7lbs.to the bushel, or -lib. above the standard weight per bushel. Not only in Wiltshire arc Live crops s'o unusual. One miller who has travelled all over the south and east of England has come to the conclusion tlvat such a hnppy yeair for this particular ceroal has not been experienced since 1868.