S3IALLER AREA SOWN!
SPRING WHEAT IN CANADA
'.): (Received May 11, 2 p.m.) ' '■■■ i OTTAWA,. May) 10. ; The area to be sown in spring wheat in Canada this year will be 1,475,100 aprea less than last, year, according to the estimate of tho Dominion. Bureau of Statistics. . '■ The determination to hold down | Canadian wheat acreage is seen, in the j reduction.. of tho estimated spring ! wheat area from 26,646,100 acres in i 1932 to 25,171,000 this year. ; The drop has surprised experts, tvh» j had believed that the recent price ad- ; vances would result iv at least'a slight: increase over last year. The decrease ' is confined mainly to the Prairiio Pro- ' vineos. The weather has been slightly warmer , and more- settled since May 1, but i work on the laud arid seeding operations ■ are still more backward than in anjj. year since 1928, the report also notes. -
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 12
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