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Show A YEAR OF GREAT CROPS Tho West will gain momentum from Its own bumper crops. It was not because of any poverty of resources re-sources that it bought conservatively Inst year, when the biggest yield of wheat on record brought the highest nverngo prices slnco tho Civil War. Tho East cauti6ned tho West then to savo Its profits and reserve tho period of spending until tho financial outlook In Now York was clearer. Today the farmer Is finishing tho harvest har-vest of a crop of wheat measuring nearly a billion bushels of oats nl-most nl-most a billion and a half bushels, and of hay many thousands of tons In excess of other years and has tho prospect of threo billion bushels of corn. His prices, to bo sure, are down. Wheat Is nearly 25 per cent, lower because tho European countries coun-tries nro buying as thoy consumo and not to accumulate, and because, too, the crops of other countries are better than they woro. The world's yield is estimated by Beerbohm at 4,148,000,000 bushels; nnd in this gain of ICC.000,000 bushels over 1914 Russia figures for an lncreaso of 112,000000 bushols and England's col-onles col-onles for 204,000,000 bushels. So it is ovldent that tho demand for American Am-erican foodstuffs this fiscal year will bo much under that of tho year Just closed. American neviow of Reviews. Re-views. ' |