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Show Supply of Oass and Clovor Sort! h Extremely Low In Fact of Unusually Heavy Midwestern Requirements Wet weather In Minnesota, which reduced the crop more than one-third one-third in that state, was chiefly re-Mtisible re-Mtisible for last year's smaller HUie Grass seed harvest. Production of 1. 518.000 bushels of cured seed totaled only about one-third as much as the 1912 crop or 4.52.VOOO hotels. Nebraska and North Dakota also showed a rons'rable drop In pro duction. Recovery of 21 -pound seed from cured seed of the 1943 crop averaged av-eraged 49.74 per cent, compared with 52 67 per cent for 1942. a difference of about 2!j pounds of clean seed weighing 21 pounds per measured bushel from every 100 pounds of cured seed. Of particular Importance to the NorO orn Plains states and the Corn Belt this year will be Sudan grasi ' seed. Some states, such as Illinois, Kansas, Montana, Iowa and the Da-kotas. Da-kotas. have so far had so little rainfall rain-fall that grasses which help to hole the topsoil will be in unusual demand. de-mand. Sudan also provides gooi grazing. Wells are reported dry It ' many states, with dust already blowing blow-ing In Iowa and Kansas. Two million mil-lion pounds of Sudan seed are al ready scheduled for Import durlnj 1944. and an increase in domestic production Is being sought by WFA. |