WORLD WHEAT
, LOWEST SINCE 1924
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 9. a.m.) ROME, August 28
The International Institute of> Agriculture forecasts the world wheat harvests for 1929 as the lowest since 1924 by reason of the drop of a hundred million quintals in world production. There has been a prolonged drought in Canada and the United States while the European diminution was due to the relative failure of Rumanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian crops. The Northern Hemisphere crop was smaller than 1928 by three hundred million metric quintals for four-fifths of the Northern Hemipsliere. The estimated crop was 643 million metric quintals compared with 746 million in 1928. ARGENTINA’S WHEAT SURPLUS. WASHINGTON, August 28. It is officially announced that lie Argentine Government report estimates the exportable surplus of wheat in Argentina on August 15 at 55,485,000 bushels. The carry over from last year is estimated at 12,712,000 bushels and the new c-rop, 307,330,000 bushels. 1 •
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1929, Page 6
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