NEW CANADIAN WHEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1936, Page 12

NEW CANADIAN WHEAT

A r&ent report from Winnipeg states that as the result of intensive study and close co-operation between the plant breeders and cereal chemists of Canada, including the resources of the Dominion's experimental farms and the prairie universities, the claim is now confidently made that a rustresistant wheat has beea produced. Thousands of Manitoba and Saskatchewan farmers whose crops were ruined last year by rust are being assured that within a very few years the scourge will be overcome. The Manitoba Government has purchased 5000 bushels of a rust-resistant wheat grown on a Southern Manitoba farm, and is making arrangements for it to be grown under the most suitable conditions. This particular wheat was produced by the University of Minnesota the situation with regard to rust being more or less similar in that State, which lies immediately south of the border, to that in Western Canada. The wheat in question will be grown near Lethbridge, Alberta, on irrigated land, to eliminate all danger of loss from drought.