DROUGHT AFFECTS WHEAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 22 July 1937, Page 9

DROUGHT AFFECTS WHEAT.

NORTH AMERICAN CROPS. SERIOUS LOSSES OCCUR. Continued drought over Canadian wheat areas that were already deficient in moisture, and heat and rust in the United States wheat belt, are reducing the North American crop by many millions of bushels a day. Estimates in Chicago on July 4 state that the Canadian crop will be 100,000,000 bushels less than the estimate this time last year. They predict only 216,000,000 bushels against 300,000,000 last year. Saskatchewan is suffering worst, and Canadian estimates place the crop in this province at not more than 90,000,000 bushels. Almost half the province will be completely barren, being beyond ’ recovery even if rain comes. Manitoba and Alberta have not suffered to the same extent, but blazing heat is beginning to reduce the crop prospects there also. In the United States the latest estimates place the June destruction at 7,000,000 bushels. Tbe composite average of five separate forecasts places the winter wheat crop at 649,000,000 bushels. The spring wheat crop is expected to reach 229,000,000 bushels. Rust in the United States has made great headway recently, and has now reached serious proportions.