THE WORLD’S WHEAT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17946, 25 November 1932, Page 5

THE WORLD’S WHEAT

RESTRICTION PROPOSAL (Received November 25, noon.) OTTAWA, Nov. 24. A conference of the four leading wheat exporting countries of tho world, with a view to curtailing wheat acreage, was suggested to the Alberta Wheat Pool’s annual meeting at Calgary to-day by Mr. C. W. Peterson, publisher of the Farm and Ranch Review, Calgary.

Mr. Peterson believed that Canada, Australia, the United States, and theArgentine .should confer on the present wheat crisis as soon as possible. He suggested a plan for the stabilisation of wheat prices, which included the licensing of wheat producers. The largest farms would bo forced to make the largest cut in acreage. Ho believed that a mere announcement bv the four countries of an accord for reducing production would raise wheat prices overnight. MORE STRIKE TALK CANADIAN FARMERS CALGARY, Nov. 215. Proposals for a general strike of western Canada ’« wheat-growers in a protest against; the present depressed prices and the general economic, conditions, will be ‘placed before the Alberta Wheat Pool in ils annual convention this week. The proposal is to call for a cessation of seeding next spring by all farmers tilling the pniiricn, which total 25:000,000 acres.