WHEAT GROWING.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 31 March 1926, Page 4

WHEAT GROWING.

!. . iTo the Editor .of “The Timaru Herald.” 1 Sir,—“The worn,an , tempted me,” so I .said the first. worker of the soil. The .woman’s name was Eve. Had that i happened to-day her name would have ' been Lizzie, or 'Tin Liz. The father of ■ Lizzie is an intolerant prohibitionist. Ho would block tho farmer growing chevaliers —the hop growing would 1 have a restricted output lor hops. If Henry’s crimes were only these he • , might be forgiven. But be has, as j Lizzie’s father, been guilty of much 1 greater evil. So sweet are his daughters ■ that, they have stolen the farmers heart. It is so much nicer to feed Liz. | ..with petrol, than the community with bread! Grow wheat,'more wheat —and yet more wheat! But so long as Henry | and his sons-in-!aw (nigh as numberless as the drops. of rain), sing of the beauty of Lizzie, in language as of the songs of Solomon, so long will Coates and Co. find it impossible to make wheat growing compulsory. Mr Richard’s ideas are on the wheat prob- i loin about as clear as the Billikins on Calisthenics. Will you permit me to point out a. phase of this problem which appears to mo to bring the ul- ! lunate issue within the jurisdiction' of !

the arbitration court. The nii’lers have j at the moment of writing either “gone | slow” or on strike. The farmers are ! unable to find buyers for their wheat, ! or they have stacked and are sitting i back until the cereal atmosphere, is ; .somewhat clearer. In the meantime 1 Australian flour is landing in Ancle- | land 20s to 25s per ton cheaper than it- ! can be landed from Canterbury ports, j 'I he Australian grain crop apparently; has been above the average. A continuance of imported flour may place the ! New Zealand wheat grower absolutely at the mercy of the intermediate agents, to the immense ' profits of that agent and mil’ers eventually. Have the wheat growers forgotten how'flour, illumed 1(H) per cent. 21 hours alter the declaration of war? How much of the inflated price passed to the grower. Not one farthing! Hut the millers (are “going slow” or on strike. There is- no I v, hits’"of difference in tlmir altitude, than to any class; workers, with whom llieso capitalistic strikers- or ‘'goslows” have so often in pnsi times been in conflict. Let our ease be tried before Hie arbitration court, let our profits and I losses be assessed there. If the farmer does not ..‘time out oi Hie ordeal a long >:iv ahead of any worker without, distinction —if he does not leave the miller sitting in sack cloth and scraping himself with a potsherd —T.know nothing about my job.—l m etc., SO HON DANK.