WHEAT IN WESTERN CANADA 129 



The fixed prices of wheat were slightly increased for 

 the 1918 crop both in Canada and the United States. In 

 Canada the fixed prices for the three first grades for the 

 crop year 1918-19 have been fixed as follows: 



1 Manitoba Northern $2,241/2 



2 Manitoba Northern $2,211/2 



3 Manitoba Nortbern $2,171/2 



In addition to fixing the prices of wheat, the Board of 

 Grain Supervisors, in conjunction with Mr. Hoover's de- 

 partment, put into effect the regulation of the export of 

 wheat between Canada and the United States. 



By an Order-in-Council on September 5, 1918, the Do- 

 minion Government took over the control of the marketing 

 and handling of grain within the Dominion. The Order- 

 in-Council vests authority in the Board of Grain Super- 

 visors in regard to grain consumed in Canada and grain 

 exported to the Allies. It provides that the agent for the 

 Allied Governments must negotiate with the Board in re- 

 gard to exported grain, and the Board can specify the place 

 at which the Allied Governments shall accept delivery, the 

 prices, and the terms. It also increases the power of the 

 Board of Grain Supervisors with regard to grain con- 

 sumed in Canadian mills, and, in a word, through the 

 Board of Grain Supervisors the Government of Canada 

 in the Order-in-Council takes control of the whole move- 

 ment of grain.^® 



Sooner or later it seems certain that the grain trade 

 will return to the condition in which it was before the war 

 when the prices of wheat were not fixed but fluctuated in 

 accordance with demand and supply. 



69 W. R. Bawlf, The President's Address, Tenth Annual Report 

 of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, Sept. 11, 1917, p. 43. 



