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Show 1 '"-i Less Wheat for 1920 Reduction In Acreage Ii Advocated ,A reduction in winter wheat acreage from that of last year, and to a prewar pre-war five-year average is advocated for farmers by the United States department de-partment of agriculture in a bulletin recently issued. It recommends that an acreage of 42,000,000 bushels winter win-ter wheat be seeded for the 1920 crop and that next spring 20,000,000 bushels of spring wheat be seeded. Under normal nor-mal conditions this would give a wheat crop of 830,000,000 bushels. It would be enough for normal consumption, and give an exportable surplus of 200,000,-000 200,000,-000 bushels. A rye acreage of 5,500,-000 5,500,-000 to 6,000,000 bushels is advocated. A crop of 75,000,000 bushels would give 50,000,000 bushels for consumption and I 25,000,000 bushels for export. |