The Farm
- ENGLISH WHEAT PRICES.
A Home paper notes that recently the average price of English wheat was only 19s 8d per quarter, or less than a half-nenny per lb. In a record going back to 1641 no such low price is to be. found. At Sleaford market on September 24 a good sample of fen wheat was sold ,at 16s 6d per quarter, while several other lots, which last year would have fetched 25s per quarter, did not make more than 17s. Calculating a yield of five quarters to the acre, which is rather above the average, farmers say that these prices mean a loss of 20s for every acre of wheat grown. Colonial farmers may think themselves badly off, but their Home brethren are in a still worse plight.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 33, 10 November 1894, Page 11
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131The Farm Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 33, 10 November 1894, Page 11
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