CANADIAN WHEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1938, Page 7

CANADIAN WHEAT

FAVOURABLE CROP LIKELY. OTTAWA, Canada. Wheat seeding is well under way in Western Canada, moisture reserves are greatly improved as compared with recent years and, given seasonable rains during the growing season, the present outlook is for a crop of comparatively normal proportions. Commenting on this, the Royal Bank of Canada, in its monthly report, states that “With world reserves at an abnormally low level Canada is justified in looking to the improvement in Western crop conditions with optimism. ,A normal yield in 1938, with an acreage similar to that of 1937, should be'considered extremely desirable.” Canadian wheat farmers in the Prairie Provinces of that Dominion are sowing considerable areas of land to the new rust-resisting bread wheats. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports that on the information supplied by their representatives throughout the Prairies the acreage sown to Durum wheat this spring will be decreased from 2,322,000 acres planted in 1937 to 1,693,000 acres this spring. This-decrease will be more than offset by an increase in the sowing of the new varieties of wheat. The total area to be sown to wheat in Canada this spring is estimated at 24,105,900 acres as compared with 24,851,400 acres last year.