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Show Farmers Seek Self-Sufficiency as Exports Dwindle ! LOS ANGELES. American farm exports have taken a nose-dive at a result of the European war, department depart-ment of agriculture experts report, but they add that at least part of the loss Is being replaced by domestic do-mestic production of farm products which were formerly Imported. Although wheat exports declined from 61,165,000 bushels during the first 10 months of 1939 to only 13.-800,000 13.-800,000 bushels In the same period last year, It wat explafned that America'i current drive for eell-sui-ficlency it leading many farmert to use otherwise idle land for growing natively "old world" crops. Fruit growers and truck gardeners, garden-ers, specializing In such comparatively compara-tively new crops as figs, lemons, limes and tofnatoes. have been among the chief beneflclaries of this new trend, foreign trade figures reveal. re-veal. Whereas 176,000 boxes of lemons lem-ons were Imported in 1932, practically prac-tically all are home grown. |