Traffic stoppers bridge for meeting But it wasnt so The Arabs were Motorists driving in the Mill Race Park area of ialt could be excused if they thought Arab members of the Organla tion of Petroleum Exporting Countries had come to Cani capricious one at that Prairie weather can By ROI EDWARDS CP Staff Writer The weather can be capricious ally to Prairie grain farmers In 1977 it was at its unpredic table worst until the last mo ment Then conditions improv ed allowing farmers to com plete their raininterrupted harvest and take in sizable though generally poorquality crop We had one of the most amazing crop years weve ever had said Ted Turner presi dent of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool the largest farmer co operative on the Prairies It started out looking like drought Then adequate May and June rain produced prolific growth Then July was dry and the only thing that saved the crop was cool weather An early frost and severe wet weather struck at harvest time And while the sun came out in time to allow farmers to take off their crops quality was sharply reduced Considerany less than 50 per cent of the wheat is in the top two grades compared with about 98 per cent last year Turner said DOWN FROM 1976 The total wheat crop for Canada including durums in 1977 was 722 million bushels compared with more than 866 million in 1976 record year For the Prairies with totals for 1976 in brackets production totals in millions of bushels were Wheat 685 writ oats for grain 228 257i barley for grain 502 455 all rye 138 115i flax seed 24 1091 rapeseed 769 364 While tht total production of wheat was much better than had been expected after the troublesome weather condi tions the majority of it graded No Canada Western or in the utility grades which are used mainly for feed The low quality presents marketing problems par ticularly in light of heavily heading after successful performance of the Living Christmas nativity pageant staged by Cambridge residents Photoi committed sales program of t0pquality wheat by the ana dian wheat board The board sole marketing agency for domestic and export wheat already has sold large proportion of the highcr grades from the 1977 crop and the car ryover from the previous year MLTST FINI MARKETS Because of the harvesting conditions this year we will have fairly large quantity of No Utility wheat that wc need to find market for said board commissioner CW ililA bings Unhkc the higher gradcs 11 Utility was not sold for future delivery earlier because thc quantities involved are always uncertain until after harvesting is over The sitation is durum wheat Virtually all of otir supplies of durum including this years crop and the large carryover from last year are commit ted Iibbings said Substantial sales of barlcy better for be ally have been made with expecta tions of total exports equal to record 165 million bushels in 1976 Exports of oats are ex pected to be below 10 million bushels compared with 32 million in 1076 0n the surface considering the fairly high quantity of grain grown this year the farmer might appear to be in good position But wheat is the niosl significant crop on the Prairies and priccs have fluctuated widely particularly during the last five years In the 10724073 crop year tiic filial realized price to farmers for busth of No Canada Western red spring wheat was $215 lhat jumped dramatical ly to $457 in 1973 1974 but dropv pcd to $447 in 19711075 and even further to $32m lll 107371070 The 10701077 pool accounts wcrc closed at tiic end of 0c ltilitl so the final pricc will not be known for few weeks But it is likely to be lower than in 1070 Expensive chunk of property HONG KONG ReuterStep right up step right up for the ultimate in oriental souvenirs chunk of Hong Kong on lease from China For just $5 you can become the lucky owner of what is bill ed as the worlds most expen sive slice of real estate Hand over the money to China Square Inch Land Ltd and your stake in the East is assured The offer is the brainchild of Philip Rosenberg bearded 30yearold Englishman who bought 1000squarefoot pad dy field in this British colonys New Territories which are due to revert to China in 1977 He broke it up into 810000 separate plots of 015 square inch each and within three months sold 10000 to contented customers They now boast an impressive land ownership document and have their pur chase officially registered with the Hong Kong government The paddy field is just half mile from the Chinese border and Rosenberg says your land is on 99year lease which is to expire in 1997 What will happen then is the political poser of the century and one which will have worldwide repercussions Its your land that everyone will be talking about he tells prospective buyers Rosenberg an exuberant en trepreneur with fine line in sales talk said everyone wants to be landowner This has an air of mystery and iii trigue Its 20year gimmick AFTER TOURIST MARKET The main target for China Square Inch has been the tourist market with clients from about dozen countries including French baron and an Indian prince among the purchasers so far The deeds are on sale through hotels and shops and will soon be promoted by Cathay Pacific the privatelyowned Hong Kongbased airline For Rosenberg who came here from Manchester England years ago the idea is paying off after months of searching for the right plot checking all the legal aspects and launching the project Ilorig Kong has always been regarded by the hinse as part of hina undcr temporary British administration But at present Icking shows no signs of wishing to change the status quo in the colony Rosenberg says he has had no reaction from the hincsc government Out on threeday pass Watergate figure John Ehrlichman leaves the Federal Prison Camp at Safford Arilona Friday morning to start his threeday furlough from prison Ehrlichnian gets thrcc Is found not guilty by reason of insanity LONDON nt tCPi Betty Florence iustorui 38 of Lori don was found not guilty by 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