THE WHEAT TRUGGLE.
WHERE CANADA STANDS. ACREAGE REDUCTION URGED. Received December 2, 11.55 a.m. CALGARY (Alberta), Dec. 1. “A world battle for the survival of the fittest in wheat growing would be ruinous to Canadian farmers,” Mr J. I. McFarlane, general manager of Co-operative Wheat Producers, Ltd., the _ central selling agency of the prairie pools, declared on Friday when addressing members of the Alberta wheat pool. He said that such a contest would be between the wheatgrowers in the exporting countries and the wheatgrowers in Europe, with the cards stacked against the exporters, through so many trade harriers. He urged the prairie Governments to assist the farmers to put back ploughed lands to grass and stressed the necessity for acreage reduction by co-operative agreements with other countries. TOLL BY INSECTS. LOSSES IN CANADA. Received December 2, 11.45 a.m REGINA (Saskatchewan), Dec. 1. According to the Federal and pro vince estimates the crop losses for 1933 from insect damage totalled 10,164,000 dollars. Other quarters esti mate the loss at 20,000,000 dollars.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 7
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170THE WHEAT TRUGGLE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 7
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