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Show Supply of Grass and Clover Seed Is Extremely Low In Face of Unusually Heavy Midwestern Requirements Belt this year will be Sudan grass seed. Some states, such as Illinois, Kansas, Montana, Iowa and the Da kotas, have so far had so little rainfall rain-fall that grasses which help to hold the topsoil will be in unusual demand. de-mand. Sudan also provides good grazing. Wells are reported dry in many states, with dust already blow-ing blow-ing in Iowa and Kansas. Two mil-lion mil-lion pounds of Sudan seed are already al-ready scheduled for import during 1944. and an increase in domatic production is being sought by WFA Wet weather in Minnesota, which reduced the crop more than one-third one-third in that state, was chiefly responsible re-sponsible for last year's smaller Blue Grass seed harvest. Production 1 of 1.516.000 bushels of cured seed totaled only about one-third as much ' as the 1942 crop nf 4.52:"),000 bushels. ! Nebraska and North Dakota also j showed a considerable drop in pro duction. Recovery of 21-pound seed from cured seed of the 1943 crop averaged av-eraged 49.74 per cent, compared with 52.67 per cent for 1942, a difference of about 2:3 pounds of clean seed weighing 21 pounds per measured bushel from every 109 pounds of cured seed. Of particular importance to the Northern Plains state: and the Corn a |