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Show Advance Report on Soft Wheat Extraordinary Laroo Abandon unit of Soft lied Winter Wheat Acreage Encourages Interinotmtain Growers of Soft White Wheats. soi r win r siku: r;i: oi- eighty eigh-ty MILLION III Slll l.s LOOMS lOl! IS!S 1IAKYIST. It is now estimated 1 1 1 :i t ten million acres, or 20 per cent of the total winter wheat nereiuto in the central and middle mid-dle western stales of the milled Slates last tall has been abandoned account I of winter killim;. liy far the heaviest ! loss is in the .sott w heat re-don of Ohio j Indiana. Illinois, Kentucky and Ten-nesse Ten-nesse where one-half of the total n.' reai-.e has been killed out. In some countries the loss is nearly total. For the entire urea eoiiiprisint; all of t Instates In-states in the United Stales east of the Mississippi River the abandonment of wheat acreage, which is practically nil .soft wheat, is now said to be 38 per , "ent ot the seeded area. The present forecast in nil of the slates east of the Mississippi Ilier is for onlv 125.000.000 bushels, while the .previous five year average production has been 205,000.000 bushels per year, 'showm-4 a positive shortage this year of 80.000.000 bushels. , The Globe Gram and Milling C0111-panv C0111-panv of O-.-den. Utah, has developed In the past few years a very huge business on son wheat flour in the southeastern stales of the United Stales and who is now passing to the growers of soit wheats in the Intel-mountain country advance information as to what might bo expected in the way of returns for Mich wheat on their 1928 harvest. I '- nnrly recommends to all soft white i wheat growers in the Iniermountain ! country that they increase this spring their acreage of such wheat as on pc-1 pc-1 count of the very heavy abandonment of sott wheat nrreaee east of the Mis-sippi Mis-sippi River there seems to be every ; reason to believe that prices for Inter-; Inter-; mountain grown soit white wheat, will be during 19 !8 on a relatively higher basis than they were during the last jtwo years. I The Globe Grain and Milling Com-, Com-, pany wishes it understood that they are 1 111 no way prophesying as to what ! prices may be or can be paid to growers of soft white wheat on 1928 harvest, 1 1 he only purpose of the article that we are passing out at present regarding . wheat acreage is that they might be a guide or hlpful to growers who are desirous of securing as much advance information on conditions as is possible for them to qet. GLOBE GRAIN & MILLING CO. OGDEN. UTAH. APRIL 6. 1928. |