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Show 1 1 Wheat Will invade Europe When Victory Jomesj i . fj' nV lilt f : i it1 ill i - -v ? '" ' ' ' ' 8 ' '"I .oJT i ' s jf .''-"i'i FOLLOWING the invasion and the liberation of Axis-held countries members of the United Nations are now setting up food supplies to feed Europe's hungry populations. Canada has already entered into an agreement with the Belgian Government in London Lon-don to deliver 7,000,000 bushels or 200,000 tons of wheat on request when all or part of Belgium is liberated. Canada has given to Greece 5,476,211 bushels of wheat. As a gift of the Canadian people fifteen thousand thous-and tons of wheat go regularly to that country every month. In addition, the Dominion has extended a $10,000,000 credit to Russia covering purchases of Canadian wheat and flour- Other countries will draw upon the Dominion's huge surplus which is now close to 800,000,000 bushels as a result of the heaviest crop in Canadian history in 1942 592,700,000 bushels and another large crop in 1941; but much wheat is needed in wartime and will be required even more urgently in the post-war period. The gross value of Canadian agricultural production, produc-tion, estimated at more than $2,000,000,000 in 1942, has reached its highest point since 1919. The war has been the means of showing what Canadian and American farmers can do in the way of recoid-shattering recoid-shattering production when given the "full speed ahead" signal. |