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Show MORE RYE BEING PRODUCED Greatest Increase Seen in 1917 and 1918 Farmers Becoming More Familiar With Crop. (Frepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) More acres and more bushels of rye were harvested in 191$ than in any-previous any-previous year in the history of the United States. From 1S49 to 1909 rye production in the United States was practically stationary. From 1909 to 1913 the i production was almost tripled, the greatest increase -coming in 1917 and 101S. Five years ago there was approximately approxi-mately 1 acre of rye for each 21 acres of wheat in the United States. In 1918 there was approximately 1 acre of rye for each 10 acres of wheat. The 191S rye crop was more than 16,000,000 bushels. The world production of rye amounts to about one and two-thirds billion bushels, somewhat less than half the annual wheat production. I- The United States department of pgricultti'-e thinks it probable, now that farmers are becoming familiar with the crop and its advantages, that rye will have a permanently larger place in American agriculture, and j that from an agricultural point of I view there should be a further con-j con-j siderable increase In production. |