WHEAT YIELD.
CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH,
Per Press Association
Timaru, April 20.
Mr. J. Talbot, chairman of the Timaru branch of the Farmers' Union, in the annual statement, puts the average wheat yield in this district at not mere than 22 to 24 bushels, and the total at not more than two-thirds of that of last year. Other branches of fanning are i-onsideral satisfactory.
It is considered probable that wheatgrowing will be largely given up, owing to (1) the cost of labor, and the difficulty,of getting it at harvest time; (2) the low prices, which are kept down tiy possible Australian imports under the low tariff; (3) high wheat freights to Britain; (4) the working of the Defence Board, taking men away to camp and leaving the teams idle.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 283, 22 April 1913, Page 5
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129WHEAT YIELD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 283, 22 April 1913, Page 5
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