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Show FLOODED OUT: No Bumper Crop Experts who recently predicted a three billion bushel corn crop this year were hastily revising fheir estimates es-timates in the light of continuing torrential rains and widespread floods which have transformed much of the Midwest into a soggy mass of mud. Damage has been particularly heavy in Iowa, extending from one end of the state to the other. Flooding Flood-ing of river bottom lands is only part of the loss. Thousands of acres of crops have been washed out, and the loss is considered irreparable. It is too late to replant with anything except for- |