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Show Grain Crops in Italy. The Italian minister of agriculture l has just issued a statement placing I the total of this year's grain harvest ' -I at 51 to 52 million quintals (1 quintal I equals 220 pounds). This is 14.000.000 quintals greater than last year's crop, which totaled only 3S.000.000 quintals. The price of wheat is controlled at present by the Perezzo Consorzio Granario (Grain Price Consortium) and is quoted at 130 lire per quintal in the Naples market. Rye, barley and oats, important crops in Tuscany, have also registered favorable increase over last season. |