Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, Vol. 40: May 18, 1940 Although the season is late in Manitoba, seeding operations are much further advanced than in the other two Prairie Provinces. Farmers intentions to plant point to a spring-wheat acreage of acres, 9 percent above that of last year, but subsoil moisture reserves are reported to be below normal, and rains in the early growing season will be greatly needed. Seeding conditions in some northern districts have been the poorest in years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.