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Show Future of Wheat, in America. We have bad a run of prosperity for some years, and bad been regaled with the thought that we had more food material ma-terial than the nation could consume, j and as much to spare as the rest of the j world might want to buy. Tho indica-tioris indica-tioris are that the day of heavy surplus i production is fiust waning. Our wheat crop in 1874 was tho magnificent total of i 612,700,000 bushels. It has not kept at i the upper notch, and in the year 189 it figured a maximum yield of 4(10,500,000 j bushels. We have a greater population j by nearly 15,000,000 than a decade ago, and the increase of home consumption would necessitate a larger yield and not a smaller. Economist. |