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Show RECEIPTS OF DURUM WHEAT At Seven Primary Markets About 33,-300,000 33,-300,000 Bushels Were Received in Last Fiscal Year. fPrepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Receipts of durum wheat at seven primary markets were about 33,300,-000 33,300,-000 bushels In the year ending June 30, 1910. During the last five years they were as high as 43,900,000 bushels bush-els In 191G and as low as 16,100, 000 bushels In 1918. Exports of this wheat ranged from about 24.800,000 bushels in 1016 to 0,000,000 bushels In 191,8, and the exports of the fiscal year 1919 were about 1S.300.000 bushels. This Is a hard wheat with high gluten content con-tent when grown on dry-land farms, and Is suitable for macaroni and other paste products. Before the war Its chief competitor in the markets of southern France and Italy, the principal princi-pal destinations of the exports, was similar wheat from southern Russia. |