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. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THIRTEEN Saskatchewan Is Worried ith Economy Dependent Wheat Price Vagaries ( | Regina--(CP)--This agricultural province is watching the future | with concern. Its economy is based precariously on the vagaries of wheat crops and wheat markets. Riding high on the crest of eight war-market years, farmers have re- trenched substantially, both mate- rially and in morale, from the grey 30's when the "29 crash and its | repercussions were followed almost at once by a drought that prevented farmers from growing the grain . they could not have sold in any case. Many now feel their reserves will be tested again soon and they want assurances of market stability. In general, the United Kingdom wheat agreement was greeted as a step in the right direction. But farmers criticized the four-year plan--to end in 1950--for what they said were floor prices too far below world market levels. And now that the agreement's end is in sight, they consider the agreement should be extended. Hopes of added security through a multi-lateral agreement faded with failure of the United States and Britain to deal with the Inter- national wheat agreement. Agri- culture Minister James G. Gardiner has said "Canada can do no more at this time" in that direction. The bolstering of European mar-+ kets with Marshall plan dollars and the Dominion government's suc- cesses in placing Canadian wheat in a dollar-hungry world appear the most Canada's biggest wheat pro- ducer can hope for. Knowing Saskatchewan never can hope to compete on a large scale other than as a wheat producer and that a world slump won't be offset by any number of provincial precautions, Saskatchewan still has at her disposal certain insurance measures. Government Policies The C.C.F. government policies are aimed at diversifying the pro- vineial economy to spread risk over a larger field of occupations. The hi hern development programs-- re fish, timber and fur have béen set under government super- vision--are said to be steps in ex- panding that phase of Saskatch- ewan's resources. The government claims increased exploitation of mineral resources is evident while its crown corporations in leather, wool, chemicals and several other lines are introducing industrializa- tion to the agricultural province. Political opponents claim free enterprise and capital needed to bring Saskatchewan's resources to their maximum are being kept out. They admit freely Saskatchewan needs as much additional industry as possible, differing from the CCF, only in the means to that end, Within the agricultural field, a slowing down in wheat production as world competition increases could relieve congestion on wheat mar- kets, Saskatchewan farmers for the last eight years were spurred into all-out wheat production to feed a war-time world. The big wheat farmer depended solely on his crop, spurning the less lucrative and more work-demanding production of beef, hogs or poultry. Feed grains and coarse grains-- excepting perhaps flax -- couldn't compete with wheat. Saskatchewan Agriculture Minis- ter I. C. Nollett is concerned today with a fodder shortage that may deplete present livestock and deter expansion in this field. He de- scribes hog production as "rotten" following the bacon contracts with Britain, when farmers were urged to supply good hogs for the British contract and at the same time pre- serve markets which after the war might revert to Denmark. But Saskatchewan's open spaces aren't lent to the intensive type of cultivation, Manitoba, for 'example, can offer. Truck gardens, poultry and dairying go by the board in favor of field crops. "It is essential that the Dominion government offer a stable feed-grain policy before a stable livestock, hog or feed production program can be laid down," Mr. Nollett has said. 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