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Show WHEAT FARMERS IN UTAH BORROW $403,320 ON CROP Utah wheat farmers borrowed $403,320 from the government up to October 2 9 and Idaho growers $3,458,442 under the 1940 crop loan program. The Department of Agriculture, reporting the figures today, said the Utah loans were secured by 817,841 bushels of wheat in farm and warehouse storage, and Idaho Ida-ho loans by 6,449,655 bushels. Nationally, the loans amounted to $169,400,671, secured by 235,-889,340 235,-889,340 bushels of wheat, ,as compared com-pared with $103,241,544 and 147,107,324 bushels for the same period in the 1939 program. The best protection against the chilling winds of life is a heavy" cloak of stupidity. |