CANADA & U.S.A.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1942, Page 4

CANADA & U.S.A.

ECONOMIC COLLABORATION. COUNTRIES MOVING CLOSER. OTTAWA, April 11. Canada and the United States are moving towards closer economic collaboration on the agricultural front. To be effective next autumn, Canada will facilitate delivery in the United States at the current United States prices of whatever quantity of flax seed, oats and barley Canada may be in a position to supply. In return the United States will facilitate the sale to Canada of vegetable oils or vegetable oil seeds.

The Canadian Bacon Board reports that at the six months'mark of the 1942-43 bacon agreement with the British Ministry of Food 326,000,000 pounds of bacon and pork products had been purchased for Britain. The agreement calls for the delivery of not less than 600,000,000 pounds within twelve months. The favourable position in respect of the agreement at the end of the six months period is attributed by the Bacon Board to: (1) The fact that the people of Canada are doing with less bacon and pork in order to help meet Britain’s more urgent needs; (2) the response and cooperation of Canadian farmers to the Board’s appeal to increase their shipments of hogs of the desired weights to market.

To provide Britain with 274,000,000 pounds of bacon in the remaining six months of the agreement will require about 2,283,000 hogs. Canada’s cheese production has sharply increased. The output for the first three months of 1942 was three times that of the first quarter of 1941.