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Show Canadian Threshing Creivs Help Harvest U. S. Wheat Canadian threshing outfits are already al-ready at work helping harvest the U. S. 1945 bumper wheat crop, under un-der special mutual aid arrangements. arrange-ments. American machinery and crews will go to Canada later on to return this assistance. Need for as rapid harvesting as weather conditions will permit is as great this year as at any time during dur-ing the war, government surveys show, although crop prospects are not yet sufficiently definite to permit any comparison of the size of this season's harvest job with that of 1944. ' State chairmen of the Agricultural Adjustment agency are handling requests by grain producers for this assistance. Some of the Canadian units are beginning their work as far south as Texas and progressing northward through Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Colo-rado, Nebraska, Wyoming, the Da-kotas, Da-kotas, Minnesota and Montana. It has been agreed that Canadian threshing crews may remain in the United States until September 15 this year. Machinery and crews from this country may enter Canada Cana-da when their services are required, but may not remain longer than December De-cember 31. y |