THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Winner Gttowixo. In a report on wheat production in Xew Zealand recently issued by the Department, of Kiouotnies ot Canterbury College it was observed: “’! bo present tendency for farmers to tiegleet wheat is mainly due to the uncertain market prospects of wheat. In wheat-growing even more titan in other industries, faith in the luture is esesutial to efficient production." But why the farmer in Xew Zealand should have less faith in wheat-growing than the farmer of other countries is not. after all. quite satisfactorily explained. Certainly the fait cannot be overlooked that dairying has encroached on whealgrowing on the smallest farms, while sheep-raising and fattening have encroached on wheat on the medium and larger farms. The circumstance that the owners of wheat lands in Xew Zealand are. as a whole, not partieularlv anxious to grow wheat remains a dominant factor in the situation. “Otago Daily Times. ’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1925, Page 2
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150THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1925, Page 2
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