FARAI IMPLEMENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 3

FARAI IMPLEMENTS

INCREASED SALES REPORTED IN CANADA. ' OTTAWA, Canada. “The improved crop prospects in the Western Provinces of Canada (the extensive wheat-growing districts) are stimulating the -sales of farm implements, and in some parts of the praire country the value of orders for new machinery for spring delivery is 30 per cent higher than a year ago,” says the Bank of Montreal in its monthly bulletin. “Reports from'the West indicate that moisture conditions over a large area of the Praire Provinces are more encouraging than they have been in any recent spring.” The agricultural implement industry of Canada has been on the up-grade for four years. Production in 1936 showed an increase of more than 16 per cent over 1935, while last year the index of employment at the Canadian implement factories stood at 71.7 as compared with 57.0 during 1936. Since 1933, the value of the output of Canadian farm implements has nearly trebled. Exports of agricultural implements have also risen steadily during the period, amounting to 9,838,808 dollars in 1937 as compared with 5,992,303 dollars in 1936. The United States, Argentina, Uruguay and South Africa are the principal markets for these exports.