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Show BANNER YEAR FOR WHEAT. Under Good Conditions Crop May Reach Billion Bushels. Washington. A billion-bushel wheat ' crop, the greatest ever grown in the world's history, is indicated for the coming harvest in the forecast by the federal crop reporting board on the growing winter and spring wheat crops. I Should that enormaus quantity be I harvested the United States would i have upwards of 385,000,000 bushels I of wheat during the coming year to ; supply the demands of the warring European nations, which are expected ' to increase rather than diminish. Do- mestic consumption this year probably will reach 535,000,000 bushels for food purposes and about 80,000,000 bushels for seeding. |