CANADIAN WHEAT HARVEST.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 3

CANADIAN WHEAT HARVEST.

♦ 450,000,000 BUSHELS. Fbom a Special Coksespoitoent. VANCOUVER, October 5. The Canadian wheat crop, now almost harvested, is expected to run to 450,000,000 bushels, worth a billion dollars to the Dominion. A great improvement in conditions associated with the late growth raised the August estimate of the crop by 50,000,000 bushels. Hay and clover have set new records. This is the fourth or fifth year in succession that the farmers or* Canada have had a healthy surplus profit from the wheat crop. In 1925, many of the farmers were just beginning to get out of debt. The years 1924 and 1925, with the unusual combination of good crop and sustained prices, practically put them on their feet. Last year, they commenced buying, and the buying power of the West was echoed in buoyancy in tho industries of the East. This year, that buying power will be greatly increased, and, with the confidence created by a quinquennium of prosperous years on the Prairie, every channel of Canadian industry and human effort will benefit. New homesteads will arise. New I autos will appear on the rural roadsi Eadio sets will multiply. There will be \ uew or better farm machinery. And with it all there will be more employ-. ; ment and better wages for those employed. For in greater measure than elsewhere, city prosperity depends on rural progress in Canada. 1 It was in 1915 that Canada produced ■ the greatest wheat crop of all previous ! time. It was 393,000,000 bushels. It j fell gradually, in the three succeeding l years, until, in 1918, it was as low as !'159,000.000. Then the years of the i slump, after which it touched 400,000,- ' 000 bushels for the first time, irr 19*22, followed bv 474,000,000 bushels in 1923, 262,000,000 in 1924, 411,000,000 in 1925, and 409,000,000 last year.