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Show UNEXCELLED CROPS Ifl U. S. REPORTED Ten Million Acres More Have Been Planted This Year Than Last. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Three billion bushels of corn, one and a half billion bushels of oats and a billion bushels of wheat are In prospect for this year" American harvest. Record crops of rye, white and aweei potatoes, tobacco, rice and hay also are predicted for the prosperous pros-perous fa rmers, who have planted 31V Ml.ooi) acres, or 10.00o.u00 acres more than last year, to their principal prod -uctp. The wheat crop, the greatest ever grown In any country, will be worth more than Jl,005.oOO,uO(t, while the corn crop! value may reach 12,500, m'0.'.00. Estimates of the principal crops, announced an-nounced today by the department of agriculture, agri-culture, based on conditions of August 1, ehow that all crops will be greater than last year. Interest centered on wheat and corn. Hot h showed improvement over July conditions, though excessive rains and cold weather in the central states interfered with threshing. Oat a also suffered in thos ptatos. but in other sections the improvement more than offset off-set this. Corn prospects Increased almost lOfl. -oon.otH) bushels, the principal gains having hav-ing been: Illinois, 30.00ft. 000 bushels; Kansas. 2 4,000. ''00; Oklahoma. 56.000,000: Nebraska. 15.000.000; Iowa, 14,000.000, aod Texas, ' 10. 000. 000. Kansas showed a loss of 12,000,000 bushejs in winter wheat; Oklahoma, ti.-0"O.0O0; ti.-0"O.0O0; Nebraska, 4.000.000, and Missouri. 3,000.000; while Ohio end Indiana showed an increase of 3.000. 000 bushels each. White potatoes rromlsa to exceed their former reconl production by ICS, 000,000 bushels, and sweet potatoes by 4,000.000 bushels. Other increases over record crops indicated include tobacco. 2?. 000, 000 pounds; flax, 4.200,OoO bushels; hay. 2,400.-ooo 2,400.-ooo tons, and ry 1,300,000 bushels. "orn prospects fell 20$, 000,000 bushels, and oals, 16.od0.i00 bushels, below the records. |