Show U S releases crop forecasts the department of agriculture estimates ar a les 1931 1011 potato production nt at bushels compared with a month ORO ago last year and average in the past ten years sugar beet production p ro was estimated at tons loris compared with estimated d a month produced last year arid and the past ten years the department reports its preliminary estimate of this years corn crop is bushels a record production the estimate was based on the departments part ments november 1 canvass and compares with a forecast of bushels made a month apo ago last year bushels wore were produced the average of the crop in the ten tea years 1933 42 was bushels the count rys wheat crop this year also Is a record crop totaling bushels no change was ans mode made in the departments preliminary estimate of a month ago for wheat or for oats barley rye arid and other minor crops winter wheat production Is placed at 1000 bushels spring wheat at bushels oats ht at barley and rye indicated production of other crops included in c lud e d apples commercial crop bushels arid and the indicated acre yield of various crops with comparisons for last year and the ten year 1933 1912 1942 average were reported as beans dry edible pounds and soybeans tor for beans bushels rind and potatoes 1287 bushels 1399 and 1201 sugar beets tons arid and |