Show I I U U. U s S. S Crop A Area ea D Decreases creases Washington Despite Despite a reduction of acres in the area of harvested harvest harvest- ed crops during the past five years Fears ears the crop area in the United States still is sufficient to maintain maintain a large volume volume volume vol vol- ume of r exports says the United States department of agriculture analyzing the latest census figures This is the first time in the history of the United States that a decrease in crop area J has been shown In many any census period Decreases in crop acreage have occurred occurred occurred occur occur- red principally j Jn in t the eastern cotton belt in the corn and winter wheat belts the eastern and southern portions por par of the corn belt beIt the hay belt and dairy region from Lake Michigan to I the Hudson valley alley and in eastern Washington and California I |