Show DAMAGE EXAGGERATED Secretary Wilson Says United States Will Have Normal Wheat Yield Chicago The reports of damage to Iho crops which have been so numerous numer-ous of late owing to the unseasonable weather and tho ravages of bugs have been greatly exaggerated according ac-cording to James Wilson secretary of agriculture who Is In Chicago Spring seeding Is a little backward back-ward he said on account of tho cold weather but there is plenty of time between now and tho last of September to grow a crop of all kinds of grain In Minnesota and tho Dakotas where we get most of our spring wheat seeding has been delayed about two weeks but with a few days of warm sunshine planting will he in full progress As regards the Canadian northwest north-west tho claims being made that this years harvest will ho seriously diminished di-minished may have some foundation In the southwest there have been numerous reports for tho past three weeks of damage being wrought by green bugs These reports of damage to the winter wheat have been greatly great-ly I exaggerated There is considerable grain grown between Washington and Chicago and personal observation of this from my part of tho United States I can state without any reservation that I never than In my life saw brighter prospects those of tho present |