CANADIAN CROPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 4

CANADIAN CROPS

HEAVY GRAIN HARVEST. PRODUCTION OF FODDER. OTTAWA, August 15. The total wheat carry-over on July 31 was 424.000,000 bushels compared With 480.000,000 bushels at the end of the previous crop year. The Prairie Provinces are preparing to harvest what is expected to be one of the heaviest grain crops in their history. Faced with the war drain on their manpower, Western farmers plan to use school children, women and white collar workers from the cities and Indians from the reservations. National Selective Service officials and employment offices in both the United States and Canada are co-operating in a plan to ensure that farm machinery and labour along the international boundary won’t stand idle in one country while there is work for them in the other.

For the second successive year, Canada’s agricultural war time policy has been to divert wheat acreage to coarse grains to supply feed for the rapidly increasing livestock. Flax seed for the production of linseed oil has also found an important place in the 1942 programme. Comparing 1942 with 1941. according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the oat acreage in Western Canada is up 19 per cent, barley 35 per cent, and flax seed 49 per’ cent.