WHEAT GROWING.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1077, 20 May 1879, Page 2

WHEAT GROWING.

Sib, — In one of your recent issues, you make a few sensible remarks, m. reference to wheat culture. I suppose that the idea of establishing farmers clubs was, to provide a source for propagating informa* tion on this and other matters, but, sir, I think with you, that people having knowledge, ought as briefly as possible to give their experience, through the public Press. My own experience m wheat growing has been, perhaps, limited, but I have come to the conclusion only to grow spring wheat, as, from experience, I find it the best crop. I also think that the presser ought to be more used for a wheat seed bed, as the land m the Waikato is mostly light. I had one paddack, last season, of spring wheat on potato and turnip land, the turnips eaten, on. the ground by sheep. I think the crop will turn out 40 bushels to ttie acre. ' The seed (white tuscan) was a splendid sample, I got from J. C. Firth, Esq. My autumn wheat crop was almost a failure, being; mostly on low land, and the winter too wet. Being proprietor of one of the steam threshing machines, I have threshed, independent of my own, 13,236 bushels of wheat and oats this season, a small amount for the time it took, but tho fact is, that some stacks were more fern than, straw, while otHers, through either being badly made, or not sufficiently thatched, were like as many manure, heaps for a good distance down them. Hoping 1 that, abler pens fchan mine will ventilate tha subject/and, at the least, stop importation of wheat, flour and oats into the Waikato, if not into Auokland. — I am, &c, Isaaci Coates. Hamilton East, May 17.