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Show WINTER WHEAT CROP 18 LARGE Forecast of Harvest Is Made By the Government ynshlnton. Wlntor wheut production produc-tion this your was forecast at 0S4,-703,000 0S4,-703,000 bushels by the department of agriculture which announced tho condition con-dition of the crop on May i as 835 per cont of normnl and tho nron remaining to bo harvested on that dnto as 38,181,-00o 38,181,-00o ucros. Tho ryo production forecast was 70, 152,000 bushels and condition 0L7 per cent Hny production was forecast nt 103,570,000 tons with tho May 1 con-iltlon con-iltlon 00.1 percent and Uio nre 74,-345,000 74,-345,000 ncres. Stocks of hay on farms May ll were 10,702,000 torw. Pastures condition, 84.0, May 1. Spring plowing, 03.5 por cent completed. |