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Show UU REPORT ON THE SURPLUS WHEAT Washington, March 8. The quantity quan-tity of wheat on farms March 1st, according to the crop report from tho Lureap of tho department of agriculture, agricul-ture, Issued at 2 30 o'clock today, was about 179,690.000 bushels, or 25.S per cent of tho 1910 crop, compared with 173,344,000 bushels or 23.5 per cent of tho 1909 crop on fnrms on March 1st, 1910, and 156,031.000 bush-elsels bush-elsels or 23.3 per cent, the average for the Inst ten years. About 515 per cent of tho crop will be shipped out of the countlos where grown against 59.3 per cent of tho 1909 crop and 57.0 per cent, the average for the last ten years shipped. ship-ped. oo |