PETROLEUM SUPPLIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 9

PETROLEUM SUPPLIES

PRODUCTION IN CANADA. CALGARY Production of petroleum in Canada’s principal oil fields in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and including the world famed Turner Valley, amounted to 877.005 barrels in August, a new high monthly record. During the month the Turner Valley oil wells were operated almost to capacity to meet heavy demands for oil arising from harvesting operations of Canada's vast grain crop. The close proximity of Canada's oil fields to its vast wheat growing plains with its mechanised agricultural equipment makes possible the harvesting, ploughing and cuultivating operations at a substantially lower cost than when imported petroleum had to be used. According to the most recent census. 1931. there were 105.360 tractors in operation on Canadian farms, mainly in the wheat growing sections of the country. In addition, there were. 105,544 motor driven threshing machines, 8,917 combines (motor-driven reaper threshers), 321,284 automobiles, 48.401 motor trucks and 179,765 stationary a:;2 portable gasoline engines for operating milking machines, cream separators and other farm machinery.