CANADIAN WHEAT.
HUGE TOTAL HARVESTED. WINNIPEG, September 20. The fourth largest wheat crop in the history of Canada is being harvested. Official Government estimates place the total at 467,000.000 bushels, which is slightly below the figures for 1923 and 1927 and almost 100,000.000 bushels under the all-time record set in 1928. Production was more than 50 per cent ill advance of the 304,000.000 bushels harvested a year ago. On July 31 there was a carryover of old wheat in the country of 131.000,000 bushels. Oats produced in Canada this year were estimated at 422.000,000 bushels, barley at 88.000.000 bushels, rye at 12.000.000 bushels and minor crops were sufficient to bring the grand total of Canadian grain to one billion bushels. Of the wheat, 446,000,000 bushels were grown in' tlii prairie provinces of Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta, and only 21,000,000 in the other six provinces. The yield for the entire West was almost 17 bushels per acre, father in excess of the | average.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 276, 21 November 1932, Page 4
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162CANADIAN WHEAT. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 276, 21 November 1932, Page 4
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