Duchesne Record | 1915-07-10 | Page 3 | Record Acreage Planted

RECORD ACREAGE PLANTED. America Will be in Position to Feed the World. Washington. American farmers, confronted with feeding the World while Europe is at war, have planted record acreages of all principal crops. Moreover, official estimates made public Thursday by the department of agriculture disclose prospects of production exceeding the average of the last six years in almost every important im-portant crop. ' -. . ' Based on the growing conditions on July 1, some foodstuffs crops give promise of new records. Their money values promise records accordingly. Corn, greatest and most valuable of all American farm products, shows an area of 109,273,000 acres half a million mil-lion more than ever planted to that crop before and .is expected to produce pro-duce 2,814,000,000 bushels. The outlook for the billion bushel wheat yield continues to grow.1 Latest Lat-est estimates raise the prospective production to 993,000,000,' an increase of 13,000,040 bushels since the last estimate.-