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Show M I I I I I I I I I I I I II I I I It I I I I BETSY BOSS FLAG ON EIBTOBIO SPOT NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., June 15. An exact copy of the original Betsy Ross flag will fly henceforth, rain or ahine, from a commanding site on the heights of Middlcbrook, about a mile and a half from Boundbrock, N. J. -The pole is on the site of the hesdqusrters of Gen. George Washington. who waa- encamped here with the main part of bia army in the apring of 1777, during the campaign which -resulted ia the British retiring to Staten island and leaving New Jersey in complete possession of the w continental troops. On this spot tha stars snd stripes were first raised after their adop- tion by congress on June 14 of thst year. The flag and staff are the gift of a patriotic or- ganizatioa here. ' -f I I I I H Hit I I I I I I 1 I II I n BUMPER WHEAT CROP IN INDIA WASHINGTON. June 15. A bumper harvest of wheat ia British India, estimated esti-mated at 369,000,000 bushels, surpassing surpass-ing all previous yields, aad a record area sowa to spriag wheat ia western Canada, where 90 pes. cent of the da- of th world's review of Msy agricultural agricul-tural news announced by the department depart-ment of agriculture today. Ia other respects foreign agriculture ia general msde a seaaoa progress. In Argentina, the wheat and flaxseed exporter of th southern hemisphere, the autumn sown crops have entered their first month of trsnsequstoriai winter in vigorous condition and probably prob-ably largely increased are. The recently re-cently gathered corn crop there turned out badlv aad little or no surplus wiiJ be available for export. The eora crop of Ho-ith Africa also is reported damaged dam-aged by drouth, aad there practically Will be none for export. |