WHEAT-GROWING FOR WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2350, 2 August 1887, Page 3

WHEAT-GROWING FOR WAIKATO.

TO THE KIHTOIt. Sm, —In your issue of July 28th nit., you have a loader on wheat, a good deal of which I highly approve, and it would ho well for the country if the farmers would take your advice and grow sufficient quantities of wheat to supply both the mills of Waikato and Auckland, and take care that after it is grown it is properly saved and covered in the stack. The wheat this season has been remarkably good and, whore properly taken care of, sound ; but there arc exceptions where this has not been the case, and a reduction in price had to be submitted to. It is no use fanners growing wheat and allowing it to be destroyed, and then only fit to feed fowls. From your article I infer that Mr J. C. Firth is the only purchaser of Waikato wheat. This I think is unfair to tho Waikato millers, as they have boon the principal purchasers, and the Waikato Coal Company through rno have been the largest purchasers, as I have purchased several thousand sacks this season. One point that I would insist on the farmers doing is sowing tho class of wheat most suitable for tlio millers, that is, white winter wheat (Pearl principally), and white Tuscan for spring wheat. If this is attended to, the farmers would always find a market for their wheat. I have bought several hundred sacks for my own use in Auckland this season, and am prepared to purchase more.—l am, yours truly, John Lamb, xVuckland, 30th July.