New Wheat.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3144, 4 March 1889, Page 3

New Wheat.

The Oamaru Mail has been permitted to make the following extract from a letter written- by one of the largest Homo buyers of New Zealand wheat to hisagont in Oamaru: -Now Wheat—You must bo careful about shipping new grain for mo, and understand that I cannot tako any unless it has been stacked for several weeks, Stook-threshedgrain unless in a very hot nor'west season, must lead to trouble. If sent by sailer here (England) I _ am very anxious about the condition of tho season's growth. There is always a lot of moisture in your wheat, and farmers are evidently, getting too careless altogether for its proper curing. Please bear in mind that I cannot take any until you can assure me that it has been properly matured in slack." This is a severe commentary on the custom of threshing from the stook, which some of our farmers adopt year after year, notwithstanding tho risk of positivo loss which it entails. Under fortunate circumstances grain may be thrashed from tho stook without having suffered deterioration through bad weather; but even if such misadventure be escaped, there is the scarcely less importantdrawback to stook-threshed wheat to wluch direction is directed in the quotation we have given above. When it is considered that the system of threshing from the stack minimises the danger of damage, improves the keeping quality of the grain, admits of tho threshing being dono at leisure, and ensures a better price, it must be obvious that these advantages aro not nearly compensated by the rough and'ready method of stook threshing, by which, for the sako of a falso economy of labor and time, the farmer's mind is unsettled, and bis crop and pocket seriously jeopardised.