WHEAT GROWING IN WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2358, 20 August 1887, Page 3

WHEAT GROWING IN WAIKATO.

TO Till', KUITOU. Sin,—Several correspondents have written to your paper regarding wheat growing in lhe Waikato. " Yorkshire ” mixes up the whole with a four course system and objects to the si raw being valued at ,tl per acre. This, I think, is a moderate value, and is of the. utmost importance for winter fee i when chalfcil, as well as the chaff from the wheat. All crops should stand on their own bottom, lie scemes afraid that there will be no market for all the wheat grown in the Waikato. Ho can have no idea of r,he large quantity of wheat and oats imported from the Smith, frequently one thousand tons per week, which is a drain on the whole community. Another matter referred to is the labour and its exp-mse. This of itself is no doubt an item, but it must bo borne in mind that all labour employed in a district, the amount of wages paid is generally spent by those employed in the district, and consumes the farmers’ produce, and causes a circulation of money, which we all desire to see. If the Waikato fanners were to grow sufficient wheat and oats to supply their own and the Auckland market, which no doubt they could if they went properly into it, the circulation of this money within the province would relieve all the depression be giving employment to niativ indn-liies that are now Umtnisbing. I’m- vcirs past a considerable piandtv l, f grain he- been imported into • ie Waikato, as well as flour 10-m the South. \\ !iv should this be f Lied industries ah me should be supported. When tins is properly taken up by the pc -pie there will be a change in the whole community. If a large area of grain crops were sown it would reduce the area in grass, and would no doubt raise the price of cattle. All prosperity must come from the land.— I am, yours truly, John Lamp. Tort-street, August Iflli. ItW.