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Show SEIZURE MEANS HIGHER PRICES FOR PRODUCERS TORONTO, Nov. i'S. Prominent. To- ronto grain nif rcha nts said tonight that : the federal government's embargo on all the wheat in the elevators east of and including Fort William will create higher prices for the producer, but that the eastern east-ern dealers will be placed more or less at the mercy of (lie western farmers for wheat to' fill the orders whh'h were to have been Piled by the wheat comma com-ma ndeered. "Our Canadian spring wheat has been yelhtm ficclv tjr c.purl," one dcalei de clared, ".lust 120,000,00') bushels have been shipped east, principally for export. Creal Hrilain. which is evidently buying for France and Italy, knows that our crop is good a nd 1 keeping the trade within Hie empire by taking over a large proportion pro-portion of t he surplus. There a re ap-proximateiy ap-proximateiy ;M,0'i0.0'M bushels yet at the disposal of the consume; s." |