ALMOST LIMITLESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 7

ALMOST LIMITLESS

OVERSEAS SUPPLIES

CROPS IN CANADA

(Britisb Official Wireless.) (Received June 21, 1 p.m.D RUGBY, June 20. While the brutal German invasion of their countries now faces (many i formerly free peoples in Europe i with the threat of starvation as they ■ lie helpless under Nazi domination, rthey may take heart even in their ctruel plight from the fact that the. forces which are still battling for freedtom, have prospect of plentiful food supplies in the bitter struggle they have vowfed to carry to victory. . i

News from Ottawa is that Canada; is likely to break all records in graiiii production. Of wheat she has nearly 1| million more acres this yeai>4 28,245,900 acres compared witts 26,756,500 in 1939. In eastern Canada! moreover, ample rainfall for crop* growth has fallen during the past two! weeks, and in the maritime provinces^ rains have resulted in excellent growth of pastures and forage crops.

Satisfactory reports have also been received of the crops in British Columbia, where fine warm weather has been experienced.

In addition, Canada will have a record carry-over of 241,000,000 bushels of wheat on July 31, compared with last year's carry-over of 102,000,000 bushels and the previous record of 209,000,000 bushels in 1933. Supplies this year will be 391,500,000,000 bushels, leaving 431,500,000,000 bushels available for export.

The Nazi conquerors in uneasy occupation of despoiled territories, and threatened with a serious shortage of the food necessary to maintain the morale of their own people, must ponder anxiously and enviously Britain's access to almost limitless supplies of food from overseas.