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coimnence.s about 8.-)() a.m. (for during the niuht i\\v wheat becomes 

 toughened, and does not thrash woU until the sun is well up) and con- 

 tinues till 7 or 7. -JO jj.ni., with the same break in the middle of the 

 day and two intervals, one in the morning and one in tlie afternoon, of 

 twenty minutes each for rest and refreshment. During ])loughing time 

 the driver is reijuired to take care of his own horses, but at harvest time 

 his horses are fed, groouied, and harnessed for him, so flint the most can 

 be made of his services, the machines kept employed, and tlie harvest 

 completed as rapidly as possible. 



Though the bulk of the wlieat is raised by settlers who work their own 

 farms, with j^erhaps just a little heli^ at specially busy times, quite a 

 large amount is now grown on large estates, where the most modern and 

 effective implements and machinery for producing this croji are to be 

 found. 



The wages paid are : — Ploughmen =£1 per week and board and lodging, 

 harvest hands — machine-men 7s. to 8s. per day, bag-sewers 6s. to 7s. per 

 day, and board and lodging. 



Cost of Production, 



The following figures give the e.x;act cost of jjroduction during two years 

 on one of those large farms in a district with less tluxn 20 inches average 

 annual rainfall. They serve to show hov/ cheaply large areas can be 

 worked : — - 



WHEAT. 

 Actual Cost of Production in 1904 and 1905. 

 1904 — Area planted, 1,914 acres. 

 1905— „ „ 1,339 „ 



Putting ill Crop. 



