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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 June 1917, Page 4

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A VOICE PKur. .i'i: jo'RY. To; Sir, —It 13 a n ao will tackle an e..itor ; , , your opinions . .cr need some explu- .1: . e cent~ ly your pap, rn. o ~ leading articles ren. d equity of the farniur •„: c a not, grow wheat at . ..a. _ j you. thereby do th c in .. very unkind injiuiic. j; . d the chief wheat disc. jV and> and, to stuu \... , teU you thai tne ... er is 3ust as genuine . _:, m as any man in Ne rt . ( . it he has not supply , s r ew Zealand dtuing ... -. ears it is not for ing money on it. ... "_ . J r ~ farmers are j Uo . , morQ "creatures of c*,_ . t . . OTITT . -<- o any one else. Why UaC . iVliere you will, from Kcu„ >L . /lh tQ Winton in the fco_ man is always \>e.. .. o sim i Ply because he ha* A and dash to make thin 6 . Square paddocks, level lax... .. , iUalitj . soil, seems to , iiiVe a go" at something. u young men, who are just u . ... , {, ~ . called up, whom I have j . , _ghing contract to, and the; . c . over 10 acres a u. , t ,« .and—and instead of r- j stay and harvest it, are .-;•., k 0 go; and yet you poop*. « bread!" Surely sou,. , ;.. jCOmei down to Canterbury < .> a bit towards getting tn. Sll _ 0 the. "bag" and learnii _ - dt the same time. My U... a ffrst man in Canterbury . . £ - ~ vheat . to England "in sac*., i ,?, about 1867; and h e also ;. | Howard, of Bedforu, t: . urrow ploughs between U. .. ~,.. , r sev . eral other Canter tn •>> esidesourselves, and we h„ .owing wheat ever since z t • >•:< drying from 2/ to 7/per Du . ': Let me assure you the-finar.c :; of the. last three years in : ui ry forv wheat-growers has about the worst on recc i , f tiie farming being bet;,, ~. ; j fully done than e\\ owe, l am lucky compared to ... _> rSi j, sowed 177 acres, and . ushels 15 per acre, instead o. .c. should reasonably expect, sS'.n>, ; lf£ e r: thousands of acres the j . was 5and 10 bushels per acre, ;v: ■ great deal of what was sown never harvested, and also a «i deal which was harvested w uh; e been better burnt, owing t'. £-:;.... ; been destroyed by frost. . .^ .,'", I main cause of failure the last t:\i-<■ been, want of rain, 13 ; is no good as it was last yea. ; 19 the year before, and 24 inMfe •;; rightthrough 1916-17 the land tf'i < neverwet 6 inches down. Give <t<- 3 inches of rain and we will gro wheat with greater pleasure at 3 V ban at" 6/, with only 13 inches. Wli •:-growers work 10 hours a day -.■-■■ ?n an & year out, and have to coml >JI thepests in the country, Socio lis i.nd ignorant men chucked in.—l etc., M. J. DI ->n.