Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . conference with the War Pur-chase Board have probed into the matter of suppliesof wheat available. They set the available suppliesfor Canada till the next harvest at may mean nothing to the average reader, butthe man who is conversant with Canadas con-sumption of grain knows that this amount whichmust carry us for five months is less than one-fifthof our normal consumption. It means that by Junethere may not be a pound of wheat available and thatvery shortly after flour will be off the market. That is the situation as it exists to-day. W
Canadian grocer April-June 1918 . conference with the War Pur-chase Board have probed into the matter of suppliesof wheat available. They set the available suppliesfor Canada till the next harvest at may mean nothing to the average reader, butthe man who is conversant with Canadas con-sumption of grain knows that this amount whichmust carry us for five months is less than one-fifthof our normal consumption. It means that by Junethere may not be a pound of wheat available and thatvery shortly after flour will be off the market. That is the situation as it exists to-day. We arespeaking plainly to the merchants of this country,because upon them in the large lies the responsi-bility of dealing with this situation. These conditionswere in a measure at least provoked by the hoardingof goods by the merchants customers. If the mer-chant sees in the above words an opportunity to for amoment stimulate his sales in flour, then he is not April 12, 1918. CANADIAN GROCER Current Events in Photograph—No. 15. GAS ATTACK SIGNAL SOUNDS THE masked figures are not a revival of the Ku Klux Klan, but Canadiansoldiers in France, who have been warned of a coming gas attack and havedonned their gas masks in preparation. In the rear is seen the dugout, andback of that the shot-scarred ground. Note the soldier in the foreground makingthe best of the situation by smoking a cigarette through his mask. loyal to the country in which he lives or the which she is fighting. If on the other hand he uses this informationto safeguard available supplies, to see that his custom-ers do not on any pretext make larger demands onthese stocks than are justified; if he in turn makesno effort to increase his supplies from his jobber butdoes his best to conserve what he has and to buy inas small quantities as possible, then he can in truthhold his head high with the consciousness that he isactually on the firing line in these times of stressand is lending his strength on the ro
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