WHEAT GROWING.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1075, 15 May 1879, Page 3

WHEAT GROWING.

Sib,—- As the season for sowing wheat is near at hand, I think it might be a great advantage to some of us who contemplate going m for that crop if some of your readers who have had experience m that line, would give usj through the medium of your columns, a little information on the subject, gathered from their own experience. Of theory, it is easy to get more than sufficient, but the result of experience within the district cannot fail to be interesting and useful. Everyone will tell us that the district is well adapted for the growth of wheat, and we often' hear of the great crops the Maories used to grow m past years, and yet, how many poor crops are to be seen. I Bubmit, that the varying success and failure points to a great lack of knowledge and experience on the part of growers. I, myself, have seen, m this neighborhood, a thousand bushels weighed and sold, off a twentyfive acre paddock, besides a good deal of waste, and I have seen, on equally good land, with the same tillage, fifteen bushels per acre, and even less, and that without .catipillars, rust, or any of the thousand and one ills that wheat is liable to- There must be a reason for the difference, if we only could find it out. If we could find out the best sort to sow, I think it would be a great step m the right direction, and another, the best time to sow. I presume the one is intimately connected with the other. In some cases, we might grow wheat after turnips, if we could get the right kind of seed, but then what is the kind, and how may it be obtained, and how long is it safe to defer sowing. These and similar questions might be satisfactorily answered, if successful growers would give us an account of their practice. The subject is one of importance, not only to growers, but to the whole district. — I am, &0., New Chum. Te Awamutu, May 12, 1879. [We shall be only too happy to mak c this journal the medium of such corres" pondence.— Ed. W. T.]