CANADA'S RECORD CROP.
"Canada this year has a record earn crop," says.the "Telegraph.", "Competent authorities estimate the wheat yield of the three prairie provinces at 200,000,000 bushels. _ Mr. It. Rogers, Minister of Public Works. who has justcompleted a tour of the Dominion, asserts that the err.p. as regards both quantity and quality, will be t.lio best over harvested. This is confirmed in a statement issued by the .Minister of the Interior, to the cfl'oct that 'the crop in Manitoba, were threshed, lias ex* ceeded by two or three bushels per acre the most generous estimate's, and all the wheat threshed so far is of No. 1 grade.' "At the annual meeting of the Grain Exchange at Winnipeg, Mr. Andrew Kelly, the president, estimated that the farmers would net- something like £34,000,000. The new crop has silenced the pessimists, and is giving the country a new push forward."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 3
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147CANADA'S RECORD CROP. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 3
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