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Show Huge Wheat Crop in Canada The 1934 wheat crop of Canada is officially estimated at 277,304,000 bushels. This is an increase of about 7,000,000 bushels over the unreslsed estimate for 1933, but is considerably lower than the average for recent years. Previous to 1933 the smallest Canadian wheat crop in the last ten years was 304,520,000 bushels in 1929; the highest was over 560,000,000 in 192S. The low 1934 production is due mainly to unfavorable climatic condi- : tions in large areas of the western I provinces where most of Canada's wheat is grown. The average wheat yield an acre for all Canada in 1934 is i placed at 11.6 bushels, compared with a long-time average of 17.1. The estimated esti-mated production of other principal grains in Canada shows an increase I over the previous year. Oats are up about 37,000,000 bushels, barley up about 5,440,000 bushels, rys up about j 2,200,000 bushels, and flaxseed up about j 460,000 bushels. |