BOUNTIFUL HARVEST
ON CANADIAN PRAIRIES LAST YEAR'S PRODUCTION ALMOST DOUBLED. SOME IMPRESSIVE FIGURES. OTTAWA, September 11. The immense Canadian prairies are yielding the most bountiful grain harvest they have ever known. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates the 1942 wheat crop, despite reduced acreage, at 615,243,000 bushels —an alltime record, almost doubling last year’s production. For Canada as a whole the feed and grain supplies are reported as the best in history with record production of oats and barley. In the Prairie Provinces alone the production of wheat and other grains approaches 1,500,000,000 bushels. For all Canada the oats production for 1942 is estimated at 660,706,000 bushels, over double last year’s output. Barley at 272,910,000 bushels is almost two and a half times the 1941 output. Rye production is 24,494,000 bushels compared with 11,659,000 in 1941. Flax seed is estimated at 16,981,000 bushels compared with 6,566,000 for 1941. Hay and clover, 15,498,000 tons, an increase of 2,866,000 tons over 1941. Legumes, root crops, sugar beets and pastures generally are flourishing. i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 6
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