crop Large Acreage of Winter-Killed Seed Ottawa, Out, May 11.
Canada's estimated area sown to] fall wheat has been depleted 13 per cent., 108,000 acres having been ported as winter killed. This reduction leaves the area to be harvested for all Canada at 753,073 acres, The percentage of 13 winter killed re-Presents an increase of 9 per cent. as compared with last year. It also ig larger than in any year since 1918, when the proportion winter-killed was reported at 15 per cent. The percentage of 13 is also equal to the average for the 10 years 1916-26.
This information is set out in the first crop report of the present season issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The report is compiled.from the returns of crop correspondents at the end of April—Reuter.
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