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Show Some Wheat. Joseph, son of Jacob, had to warehouse ware-house a good deal of wheat in the seven fat years to carry the Egyptians through the seven lean ones. , The American farmers produced enough in 1898 to make Joseph's little stock look like a pea in a tub. If it had all been piled in form on the plain of Gizeh it would have made nine pyramids the size of the pyramide of Cheops, and with the surplus another could have been reared four-fifths as large. That was the biggest American wheat crop ever recorded. It amounted to 675,148,-705 675,148,-705 bushels, grown on 44,045,278 acres of land, says Ainsley's Magazine. Next year the yield was lighter and the Americans only turned off seven and nine-tenths pyramids of wheat. In 1900 they even fell short of that, producing pro-ducing only a paltry seven and a half pyramids. Still, that would have been a comfortable addition to Joseph's i stock, and considering that it was grown on a smaller acreage than the crop of 1899 was a rather creditable performance. The deficiency was made up with a two-billion bushel corn crop, and 210,000,000 bushels of potatoes. |