CORN GROWING OR WOOL?
TOP PRICE FOR N.Z.
A visitor lately returned to London sends the following interesting remarks on the superiority of corn samples from the South Island :
“ I have brought home with me samples of New Zealand wheat, and I find there is nothing to be compared with it offering from any quarter of the world. I am selling my cargoes at the very top price. I have been in communication with experts in the seed trade, and, excellent as the quality of New Zealand wheat is, I am satisfied that even that may be much improved upon by using a change of seed. I am shipping five or six varieties of hard Russian red wheats to Port Chalmers, and the experts assure me that, from the results obtained in other countries, they confidently expect that these wheats, acclimatised in New Zealand, will produce a sample finer than anything known yet.
The superiority of the samples of Now Zealand oats, barley, beans, and peas, over those exhibited from any other part of the world, is even more pronounced than in the case of wfieat; and people hero listen in amazement when I tell them that there are five or six million acres of land already opened up by roads and railways, and capable of producing such cereals, the owners of which have ploughed up and laid it down in grass to produce wool.”
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Patea Mail, 16 June 1882, Page 3
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235CORN GROWING OR WOOL? Patea Mail, 16 June 1882, Page 3
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