GOOD PROSPECTS FOR EMPIRE WHEAT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2420, 27 March 1915, Page 15

GOOD PROSPECTS FOR EMPIRE WHEAT

- Never within living memory has the grave importance of a greatly enhanced output of wheat, both national and Imperial, stood out so clearly or so strikingly. The rapid rise in food prices, evidenced by the Board of Trade returns for London and country districts alike, has provoked 'much discussion, and given prominence to many suggestions for remedying the present state of' the wTieat markets. Not much, we fear, has yet been accomplished at Home, but the Dominions are doing their best to rise to the occasion. For patriotic purposes every available acre in Canada is to be sown. The Canadian Department of Agriculture has recognised the supreme necessity of still further making Canada "the Granary of the Empire," and arrangements are being made to_ ensure the grain yield in the history, of the Dominion. Conditions are favourable, and the Government are taking steps to assist any farmers who may, unfortunately, be unable to provide their own seed: at least a million acres will be added to the wheat acreage. Elevator storage facilities are being rapidly extended and the prospects of a marked increase in Canada's contribution to the food supplies _of the Homeland are distinctly promising. Large increases in wheat acreage are also being recognised as a vital necessity in Australasia, in India, and other portions of the Empire.— "United Empire." '