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Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1916, Page 5

Canada's output of grain and flav in the three Xurth-West States is placed at 689,091,200 bushels, valued at £92,400,000; the wheat supply being 407 million bushels. A recent Blue book reviews the food resources of the Empire, and gives encouraging evidence of self-sup-porting supplies. The total production of wheat within the Empire, which was '227,500,000 cwt. in 1901, had risen to 399,700,000 cwt. in 1911, an increase <Jf 75 per cent.; in the same period the wheat area increased by 4.V5 per cent., whereas the percentage of population rose by only (!.<! per cent. As regards meat, only in the case of pork, bacon, and hams have the supplies from the Dominions shown a tendency to decline. But the Canadian export trade lias materially decreased of late years; in fact, Canada now imports mutton from New Zealand for her own consumption. Statistics are. given which indicate that, in general, the producers of the United Kiiigdom have in recent years held their own in the production of food supplies. The tendency in the United States is to the importation of food supplies, and it is evident that production within the Empire ffiuajt irwroaso.