THE CRAIN HARVEST.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 447, 4 March 1909, Page 2

THE CRAIN HARVEST.

WHAT WILL THE PRICES BE? With the grain crop nearly all safely harvested, the wheat growers of the great southern plains will now begin to wonder what the prices will bo. The early samples offered met a brisk inquiry at about 45., but this was due to the fact that millers were short of supplies. Some inferior samples, of which there have been many on oifer, were cleared at 3s. 9d., but it is freely held that millers will refrain from operating until the price for good milling wheat lias settled down to 3s. Cd. Then they will stock up. Millers arc perhaps further induced to postpone their purchases by the inimaturo condition of much of tho grain threshed from the stook. Tho unusual abundance of sap in the crop resulting from the moist season has discouraged this mode of treatment, and more than usual of the crop may in the end bo stacked. The quality, of the oerry, however, is better than the average of last season, and if properly dried and sweated before threshing, the results aro expected to be most satisfactory. Threshing machines at present do not appear to bo overtaxed. Tne total crop of wheat is still expected to exceed 30 bushels per acre. |