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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 26, 25 October 1918, Page 4

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. OT IO S A SEDUL ITA i> TIO S A S E-D ULIT AS. (Idle Industry; laborious trifling.) AMERICA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AND JAPAN Are Booming Their Wheat Production. But New Zealand, with its matured wisdom and infinitesimal , population compared with tlio above countries, is strangling it, and if we don't get a hustle on New Zealand will be a deserted village, and, as .the Canadians say, ' wpthing to burn or pawn." VANCOUVER "DAILY , WORLD," September 21, 1018. • WHEAT YIELD. ON ESTIMATED ACREAGE OF 15,526,000, CROP WILL AVERAGE 104 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. (State Guarantee, 9/2 per bushel.) WINNIPEG, Sept. 21.—1t is pretty well established that the wheat yield of the prairies will be 163,025,000 bushels, (in average of 10J bushels on the acreage of 15,526,100. This i 9 the estimate just made public by the North-west Grain Dealers' Association, an organieation with many elevators scattered over ihe West and available information for accuracy. The total wheat crop in 1917 was 189,655,000, so this means a slight decrease in production, though the acreage increase was 2.G00.000 in 1918. But the oat 3 average is much better, showing on this estimate 23.5 bushels per acre, or a total of 214,625,500 on an acreage of 9,133,000. The barley average is 19, on an acreage of 1,955,500, a total 'yield of 37,151,5(10. With an acreage of 1,000,800 of flax, the average is seven bushels, with a total of 7,005,600. WEST WILL BE PROSPEROUS. These figures give relatively an idea as to just how prosperous the West will be this fall, in spite of the dreary predictions of a few pessimists. The West , will literally have money to burn, and that means the Victory Loan will receive substantial assistance in the rural districts this fall as last. The ; market for automobiles was never better in the farming districts, and it is estimated that more than fifty millions have been paid for new farm machinery on- the prairies this year, with reports yery general of old debts being cleaned up. THE MENACE OF FOREIGN, FLOUB. LETTER RECEIVED BY MR. VIRTUE FEOM MB. W. DUNBAR, FLOUR BROKER, HONG-KONG. (Though ancient, instructive.) "10th November, 1916. "I have just returned from a trip to Japan, where we spent a month pleasantly, and during that time I visited ■one of the large flour mills, which turns out 150 tons per day, and is now being increased to 200 tons. ]t was a modern plant, with one American miller in charge, nil the work being done by natives—and it is well done. The mill had 10,000 tons of wheat piled up; this was drawn from Japan, Corea, and North China. While the wheat from Japan is small and dirty, that from Manchuria, North China, is very fair, and I think in time will make itself felt in the world's markets. They export ' now about 2.000,000 tons of beans every year; no doubt they will increase their wheat in due time. Japan is now selling flour in London made from China wheat, and getting ,£lB per ton (J-Os. per ton belnw the American price) for it—not bad for a start." I'.S.—The freight to London from ,Tai«u is between <£6 and £1 per ton. After the war, with low rates of freight, this will lie another danger, unless the Dominion is amply protected.—P.V. P. VIRTUE, Manager, ' Northern Roller Milling Co., Ltd.