CROP FORECASTER

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 11

CROP FORECASTER

There are some extraordinary jobs in the world, "but none- queerer than that ot! Cora Hind, claimed to be the greatest prophetess alive. The fortunes of vast industries are affected by her forecasts. She is a Canadian, was an orphan at five, and the first lonian to work a typewriter west of the Great Lakes. In time she became a writer on agriculture. In 1904 an American expert published a statement that Canada's ■ wheat crop would amount to 35,000,000 bushels. But Cora Hind differed, and set out with a notebook to make her own estimate. Her calculation was 54,000,000 bushels, and when the crop was garnered her estimate was found to be correct. Every year this remarkable;woman goes into the prairies; travels by train, car, horse,' and on foot, and' returns with her estimate of Canada's wheat yield. Her forecast is always correct to within one per cent, and is eagerly awaited by Government exports, grain traders, transport companies, insurance houses, banks, and manufacturers. She has been offered many tempting posts, but even now, at'tho age of scvpnty, prefers to remain independent.