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Show 11T. although the actual harvest of J.o65.00,00 bushels In that year wss exceeded in the three years 1I2, 120 and 121. the largest harvested crop being !.20.000.000 bushels. In 12. A large crop of corn Is due to a relatively rela-tively low prevention of production by the many causes by which It is limited, hut of course production Is also related re-lated to acreage, the department' records rec-ords show. During- the thlrten years the lowest degree of prevention waa 23. e per cent of a potentloal crop. In 120. and the highest waa 44. S per cent In 11. Within the period covered, from about one-fourth to nearly one-hnlf of a potential po-tential production has failed to he realized. real-ized. The average is a little , more than one-third. POTENTIAL CORfJ CROP SHOWS r BIG MARGIN wasnss Only 64 Bushels Out of J Every 100 Expected Are Actually Harvested i. w i ' WASHINGTON. Oct. 20 Of every too bushels of com that farmers set out to grow, only Si bushels are real-tied, real-tied, according to figures compiled by (ha United States department of agriculture agri-culture over a period of thirteen years, she difference between the potential Jrop and the quantity harvested Is ue to weather conditions, defective seed, plant diseases and insects and animal peats. Kor every bushel of corn harvested somewhat over one-half of( a bushel fails to reach harvest. Wera it not for the elements that tend to reduce the size of the crop, the average crop for the thirteen-year period would have been aboHt 4.174.-400.000 4.174.-400.000 bushels Instead of the 2.D05.-400.000 2.D05.-400.000 bushels actually harvested, provided the same acreage had been Slanted. The department points out. how-tver, how-tver, that If these elementa did not r.lst nad corn, growers wera certain f 100 per cent results, the corn acreage acre-age probably would have been greatly reduced, so that the final outturn fright not have been a larger crop i than that actually harvested. It would mean simply that the farmer could get from two acres tha crop he ftow harvests from about three. ', The largest potential corn crop waa one of about five million bushels In |