Show RUSSIA LEADS IN WHEAT PRODUCTION W WASHINGTON Jan 17 The The Tho United States has lost Jest its place as the greatest wheat p producing country in tn tho the world an and Russia has won that distinction Even Eyan though last year YEar the total yield of wheat in the United States was next to the largest est in iii the time history of American agriculture only the time crop of 1901 having exceeded it i Russia last year produced the remarkable harvest of bushels which constitutes the largest crop ever ver harvested by any country and and bushels greater than that of tho the United States State ho The Tho great reat eld of Russia for 1909 as shown by the tho revised official returns returns re returns re- re turns received by the United States department of agriculture exceeds by ore nore than bushels the previous previous previous pre pre- record of Russia Only twice has the tho wheat production of Russia surpassed stir sur su- su passed passel that of the United Unite l States the first in in 1904 when time the crop hero was wasa a partial failure About one fourth of the Russian crop is exported Last year rye was grown row on acres iq in Russia where rye is the chief bread grain rain Returns received by the department from a dozen counties countries countries coun coun- tries which in tho the preceding year vear produced produced pro pro- dued ties more moore than four fifths fou of the tho so so- called worlds world's wheat crop exclusive of the tho mid season mid season crops of India andt and t the be southern hemisphere show in in the aggregate a ii net set gain in 1909 of bushels or nearly learly 18 per cent over the tho yield of the samo same countries in 1908 This This' his his- would indicate that the called so-called worlds world production last Jast year was wa approximately bushels All but three of the countries heard from report an increase Those with wih short crops are Germany Hungary Iun ary and Bosnia ovina The rhe condition in which the new crop entered winter vinter is satisfactory except in Great Britain n and Russia An official official of of- crop Bri report from Russia rates s the below average in provinces I crops a as beloW that contain 53 per cent of the rye I acreage creage and aDd 41 per cent of the area area of of winter winter wheat |