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Show WHEAT EXPORTS TO ALLIES DECREASING Food Administration's Appeal to . Fanners Has But Slight Effect During Week. ' WASHINGTON, March 30. The food administration's appeal to loyal American fanners to market their wheat now, while the greatest diffi- culty is being met in feeding the allies, al-lies, had only slight effect last week,' when military receipts "increased to 3,250,000 bushels, as compared with 3,-000,000 3,-000,000 bushels the previous week. Th normal receipts are 7,600,000 bushels. Many millions of bushels, the administration ad-ministration said, still are in storage on the farms. Exports to the allies, meanwhile, continue to decline, and from March 15 to 22 amounted to only 199,749 tons of cereals, as compared with the weekly programme of 270,000 tons. Up to March 22 -there was a deficit of 1,001,-301 1,001,-301 tons in shipments of breadstuffs, which, it was anuounced, must be made up and which can be made up only with wheat. |