CANADIAN WHEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1939, Page 3

CANADIAN WHEAT

PROSPECTS OF BUMPER CROP. . RUST BEING ELIMINATED. OTTAWA. Prospects of a “bumper” wheat crop in Canada grows with continued favourable weather and storage and transportation facilities will be taxed to the limit. There are 5339 country elevators in the three prairie provinces including 150 which have been re-opened in anticipation of the flood of yellow grain. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports, as on July 11. that “crop prospects in the Prairie Provinces continue to be very favourable as the season. progresses. A second week of warm bright weather hastened growth and provided ideal conditions following the good start obtained in June. A considerable part of the wheat crop is now headed without any extensive damage being reported.” The Canadian “Press” in a leading article, reports that “an air of optimism prevails across Western Canada as Prairie farmers watch their 1939 grain crop thrive to maturity under ideal growing conditions.” Similarly, the monthly commercial letter of the Canadian Bank of Commerce reports the prospects for the 1939 wheat as “the most favourable crop conditions for the Prairie Provinces since 1928,” and the Royal Bank of Canada says that “crop prospects in Canada this season are the most promising reported for several years.” A feature of this year’s wheat crop is the large percentage of the new rustresisting varieties that are being grown. As the Bank of Commerce says: “Traces of rust have been found in Manitoba, although there is protection against the ravages of this disease in the rust-resisting wheats now grown over the larger part of the most susceptible area.” In Saskatchewan alone, more than 58 per cent, of the entire area sown to wheat is in rust-resisting varieties which have only recently been perfected by Canadian agricuL tural scientists.