Show California Crops San JFrancisco 3It is now known r that the hot north winds in Juno did more damage to wheat than could have been at the time supposed Over a large area the wind caught the grain still in the milk and although in many sections wheat looked well it was found to be EO shrivelled as to hardly pay to cut it The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture Agricul-ture has just issued figures putting the wheat acreage for the present year at two million six hundred thousand acres Notwithstanding the increased acreage over last year he estimates the crop will be 20 per cent less than last year As it was only one million two hundred thousand tons this would make the present years total crop under a million The beat grain authorities here unhesitatingly pronounce tho secretarys estimate entirely erroneous and say he 13 a notoriously low estimator They say wheat will be probably 20 per cent less than the quantity estimated prior to the 1st of June which was one million six hundred thousand tons Deducting that required in home consumption would luave nine hundred and fifty thousand tom for export Careful examination and comparison subtantiate the correctness correct-ness of these figure |