Bumper Crops Reported from Every Country: Even Russia Propsoing to Export An interesting telegram from London, of August 9, stated that.
"Responding to an appeal by the Canadian Government, several thousand miners, shipyard workers, farm-labourers, and men of all trades and professions have sailed or will sail this week-end to help to harvest Canada's bumper crop. Forty thousand workers from outside. Canada altogether will be required."
This presents but one side of the story of this year's enormous wheat harvests all over the world. Were there mo middlemen to satisfy—people who, in the majority of cases could not tell growing wheat from barley, and certainly would be at a loss if they hal to cultivate a wheat field themselves—no rising freight rates to meet, and no fluctuating exchange to reckes with, bread today would be as cheap almost as anyone could wish it to be, and as there is so much interlocking in modern business, probably also many other of the world's industrial problems would be solved. Not the people most intimately concerned, for they are the majority of the inhabitants of the world, who eat wheat and its products, but those who arrange what. the people shall have, and at what price, are faced this season with one of the biggest wheat crops ever known. Right from the very beginning, the weather conditions have been favourable and even at the time of sowing reports were coming in from all quarters that bumper crops confidently were expected. So it has gone on. through every sanguine expectation, until now sufficient of the harvests are in to prove that the world has produced more wheat than for many a year past.
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