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Show WHEAT HARVEST MUCHJEDUCED Deterioration in June Cause Reduction in Crop of $40,-000,000 $40,-000,000 Bushels. RECORD CORN CROP Total of 3,160,000,000 Bushels Bush-els Forecast Other Record Harvests. WASHINGTON July 9. A reduction of 40,000,000 bushels in the prospective wheat harvest was shown today in tho department of agriculture's July forecast, fore-cast, .which is 891,000,000 bushels compared com-pared with 931,000,000 bushels forecast fore-cast in June. Deterioration during June reduced the prospective winter wheat crop by 30,000,000 bushols and the spring wheat crop by ten million bushels. The corn harvest promises to be the largest on record with a total of 3,-160,000,000 3,-160,000,000 bushels as forecast for the first time this season by the government. govern-ment. The acreage is almost five per cent smaller than planted last year, the total being 113.S35.000 acres. Record crops of barley, rye, sweet potatoes and rice are indicated, while forecasts of the oats, white potatoes and tobacco crops show they probably will equal their records if they have good conditions. Only one half as much wheat remained re-mained on farms on July 1 this year as was held on that date last year and the quality was about one-fifth of tho average hold over of the five years 1912-1916. Wheat remaining on farms July 1 is estimated at S.2S3.000 bushels. Production forecasts of the various crops, estimated from their July 1 conditions con-ditions follow: Winter wheat 57,000,000. Spring wheat 334,000.000. All wheat S91.000.000. Corn 3,160,000,000. Oats 1,437,000,0000. Barley 230.000,000. Rye Sl.60.000. White potatoes 406,000,000. Sweet potatoes 92,100,000. Tobacco (pounds) 1.1S7.000.000. Flax 15,800,000. Rice 43,400,000. Hay (tons) 102,000,000. Apples 195,000,000. Peaches 40.300,000. Acreage planted to various, crops and announced for tho first time are: Corn 113.S35.000. White potatoes 3,113,000. Tobacco 1,452,000. Flax, 1,967,000. Rice 120,300. Condition on July 1 of the various crops was announced as follows: Winter wheat 79.5 per cent of a normal. Spring wheat S6.1. All wheat 81.9. Corn 87.1. Oats 85.5. Barley 84.7. Rye 80.8. Whito Potatoes 87.6. Sweet potatoos 86.4. Tobacco S3.1. Flax 79.8. Rico 91.1. Hay 82.2. - Apples 59.7. Peaches 46.5. |