Show c Our Wheat Crop I 4 l' l 1 i 0 0 i WHEAT HEAT is and always has been the commodity corn com I L VY around which h world eV events evets s re re- re volve The worlds world's wheat supply can well be draws it all 1311 lI likened to a magnet which I to t r. the great affairs of nations Because it if Ws is the principal supply for the bread of the about it hangs the destinies of poli- poli j r financiers bankers educators and andJe anden Je even en nations i Rudolph A. A Clemen economist for the Illinois Illi- Illi nois Merchants Trust company has written J an exceedingly able table thesis on the grain trade On jOn the Chicago board of trade in the smaller I. I I grain markets at Kansas City Duluth Minneapolis Minneapolis Minne- Minne apolis polis Winnipeg in Liverpool Odessa and India below the equator in Buenos Aires in Cape Town and nd in Australia keen men spend months of each ach year trying to discover how wheat is is' is progressing and what its price willbe will be he says On the small farms and large estates estates everywhere men and women scan anxiously JJ the sky for signs of wind and weather which rt i might affect the harvest In political capitals if nd in industrial centers men of the largest j are hardly less concerned They know J t vell velI that political destiny and commercial t a prosperity will b be intimately affected by what I I i happens each year ear to wheat the principal bread Thread crop of the world J r r A year ago the fhe wheat farmer of Americ America F os money A great sea of unrest swept s the I country It played an n impOrtant part il conr con con- gress r ss and threatened threaten d the pol political po powers ers of I J merica meria A soothing effect is felt this year 4 t ith Canada bushels short of I her ier normal crop The shortage in the world I supply of wheat with America enjoying an I abundant crop caused prices to advance 34 tents cents in three months Cash prices for No 2 hard winter wheat advanced from on May iMay ay 8 to 1473 1470 on October ber 14 Mr Clemen points out but |