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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 23 April 1908, Page 2

WASTE NOT.

THE WHEAT SUPPLIES. ' THE QUESTION OF A Tho Question of whether there will be all abundance or a shortage of locally-grown wheat for next year's needs—with dear broad —is, like all matters of estimate, a subject for differences of opinion. A competent agricultural statistician, who anticipates a shortago, constructs his conclusion' on the following figures. It will bo observed tliat he adopts 20 bushels as the avorage yield, .regarding the official estimate of 27 bushels as probably too low:— ' . .. SUPPLIES. Bushels. .. 103,031 acres, at 30 bushels ... 5j790,930 • demand. , Food; . 1,000,000 people, at ' ' 6 bushels ... ' ... 6,000,000 Seed, 250,000 acres, at 2 * bushels ... . ... 500,000 1 ' ' : ■ 6,500,000 Shortage ... ■ 709,070 " "There will," said this authority, be an inoreased use of wheat f6r animal foods, on account of the increase of poultry-keeping. •' But if the nrice of bread remains high, the people will be less wasteful and use less bread. If they Use five bushels per head instead of six, that will just about balance the supply and demand, and I think that is what will very likely happen. It will bo the solution-of the breadstufts problem during tho current' cereal year": Tho: amount of wheat imported from Australia, of course, fluctuates very widely."