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Show IMMENSE WHEAT CROP. Yield as Fo'recast Second Largest in History of Country. Washington. The second largest wheat crop in the history of the country coun-try is in prospect for this year's harvest. har-vest. The department of agriculture on Friday forecast a total of 931,000,-000 931,000,-000 bushels of winter and spring wheat combined. That is only 09,000,000 less than the billion-bushel crop the government had hoped for, and continuation con-tinuation of the Ideal growing conditions condi-tions such as have prevailed during the last month might yet produce a harvest of 1,000,000,000 bushels. |