WHEAT CONFERENCE.
AMERICA STANDS OUT.
FARM STOCKS AT MARCH t.
(Received March 10. 5.5 p.m.) WASHTNOTON, Mnrch 9
The State Department has decided that the United States shall not take part in the coming world wheat conference at Rome. The Department of Agriculture has issued a report staling that the wheat (,locks on farms at March 1 totalled 100,282,000 bushels. The percentage of the previous wheat crop shipped or to Le shipped out of the country was 59.4 per cent. The supply of farm labour at March 1 was 11J.8 per cent, of normal. For the United Slates as a whole about 164 men for every 100 jobs were available, a decline from the record high ratio of 171.8 per cent, on February 1.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20819, 11 March 1931, Page 11
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