CANADA'S GREAT HARVEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 257, 30 October 1928, Page 4

CANADA'S GREAT HARVEST.

LARGEST CROP IN HISTORY. Early predictions that Canada would thin season harvest the largest cereal crop in her history are confirmed by the first official estimate published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics on September 12. This estimate indicates tyat the Dominion will have 110,000.000 more bushels of wheat this year than in 1827, and 76.000.000 bushels more than in 1023, the record year to date. "Present indications." the Bureau states, "point to the harvesting of the largest wheat crop ever reaped in Canada, amounting to 560,482,000 bushels." For the first time Canada's wheat crop has passed the half*million mark.' Last year the finally estimated production was 440,024.700 bushels," and in 1923 the harvest of wheat was 474,109,000 bushels. Canada's petition as the premier wheat exporting country'of-the world will be Appreciably strengthened by this enormoiiß crop. It results from greater acreage and increased yield. The average per acre production of spring wheat is estimated at 7 omVnnrefl- wf+h ta«t year. The total wheat acreage is the largest on iv , . . .Slii u... cs. a» iiu i <isc of 11,0,54.002 Rcrcs over last year. Of very great importance also is the tremendous increase in barley production. This year's crop is estimated at 144.875,000 bushels, compared with the previous record of approximately .100,000,000 bushels in 1820, and 90,938,000 in 1827. The'area sown to barley in 1928 is placedat.4,B7B,sßß acres, an increase over 1827 of acres. The yield this year is estimated at 28.7 bushels per acre, as against 27.7 bushels last year. Canada's most successful year in agriculture is not limited- to gains 'in wheat and barley* but extends to all the other important cereals and the root crops. The :jrWd «f oats estimated at 474,242,000 bushels compares with 430,712,700 bushels lastyear. Rye at 16,879,000 bushels com&Uat,with 14,899,600. For mixed grains the estimate is* 38,823,000 bushels, as against 37,621,500 bushels in 1827. Buckwheat at 11,351,000 bushels compares with 10,890,000. Although the yield per acre this ym is higher,;» very much reduced flax seed results in an estiinate of **