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Show INCREASE IN WHEAT CROP. Department of Agriculture Forecasts Harvest of 650,000,000 Bushels. Washington. America's 1017 wheat crop, as forecast June 8 by the (le partment of agriculture, will fall far below normal, despite a prospect for a more than ordinary yield of spring wheal.. ' A total yield estimated at (mG.OOO,-000 (mG.OOO,-000 bushels will give the country 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 bushels more than last year's crop, but with the heavy demands from ihroad and virtually no reserve store, it will not meet war needs unless the. country practices the most rigid econ-) omy. The department forecast a .spring crop of L'S.'i.OOO.OOO bushels, a hi'gield, but estimates of winter wheat production produc-tion give a crop of only ;!:T,000.000 bushels, 7,000.000 more thah was forecast fore-cast from the May 1 condition, but still far from the normal yield. Herbert ('. Hoover, who will be food administrator under the food control hill pending in emigre, estimates the allies' needs this year at 1.000.000,000 bushels of grain, most of it to come from the 1'nited Slates ami Canada. The short wheat crop means that this country will have to cut its wheat consumption if it exports any wheat, since the 1'nited States itself normally uses more than OiKl.OtKl.OOO bushels. At the beginning of I'.Mti there were (Vt.-(XH.l.OOO (Vt.-(XH.l.OOO bushels on band carried over from the. previous year's record crop. |