WHEAT AND OATS
BROTHERS HOLD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS.
EDMONTON.
Two Canadian farmers, brothers, today are proud possessors of the world championships for wheat and oats. F. Lloyd Rigby, aged 23. and W. Justin Rigby, aged 22, who operate a 320acre farm with their father at Wembley in tiie famous Peace River district of Northern Alberta in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, were the proud winners of the two championship awards at the Chicago International Grain and Hay Show at Chicago, United States. In the last 19 years of wheat competition, Canadians have won IG times. For 193839 the elder brother is Wheat King as a result of his entry of Reward wheat which weighed G 7.5 pounds to the bushel. The younger brother entered an outstanding sample of oats.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1939, Page 6
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129WHEAT AND OATS Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1939, Page 6
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