AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

WHEAT ESTIMATE.

LESS EMPLOYEES 'NEEDED

(Per Proas Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) VANCOUVER, July 17.

A message from Winnipeg states that with the wheat crop estimated at approximately half of the 1928 yield, employment officials state that only twenty-five per cent of the harvest help required in 1928 will be needed to deal with this year’s crop. Last year fifty thousand harvest workers were from Eastern Canada and fifteen thousand were from I3r iiain. ’ It was unlikely they s'u'vd that during the coming season ar.v Britishers would be brought to Canada to deal with the harvesj..

WORLD WHEAT SHORTAGE, DELIVERIES REACH HIGH LEVEL. NEW YORK, July 17. Future deliveries of wheat swept to new high levels as prospects of a world shortage, before the harvesting of the 1930 crop, have arisen and as the Canadian spring planting has shrunk under high temperatures trading was wild to-day. The last estimates from the north-western wheat areas indicated that there is a shortage above four hundred million bushels in the North American spring crop. TERRIFIC HEAT. , EFFECT ON WHEAT MARKET. (Received this dav at 11.25. a.m.) OTTAWA, July 17. A Winnipeg message states a continuance of terrific heat and drought in the Canadian prairies has sent wheat upward 8} cents per bushel today. TO HELP U.S.A. FARMERS. WASHINGTON, July 16. Mr Alexander Legge, President of the Farm Board, has announced that the first policy which the new Farm Board has agreed upon will he that of building up co-operative associations, in order to eliminate the' middleman, and to . lirijig the producer and consumer into direct contact. It is hoped that this programme will bring greater profits to the producer without increasing the prices to the, consumers'. In the meantime, in order to thoroughly study the co-operative system—the aiding of which, through Government funds, will be the chief purpose of the Farm Relief Act—the. members of the Board will meet the American Institute off Co-operation at Baton Rouge, in Louisiana, on July 29.