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Show A BILLION-BUSHEL GRAIN CROP. Contrast with the scenes of the terrible ter-rible European conflict and the "death harvest" which is being reaped abroad, the scenes of agricultural activity ac-tivity that are now being enacted throughout the Middle West and the great grain-growing sections of the Northwest, and you have a picturesque pictur-esque scene of relief. American farmers farm-ers are surely destined to feed the world's children during the months to come! One hundred and fifty thousand men from every' state of the Union have invaded these Western sections and are engaged in harvesting the" greatest cereal crop In the world's history. Tho procision with which the precious grain crop is garnered from our grain fields presents one of tbe wonders of tho world. There arc approximately CO, 000,000 acres devoted to the 1915 wheat crop. This acreage will yield a harvest of between 950,000,000 and a billion bushels, students of the agricultural situation confidently predicting that the latter figure will be reached by fall. The average wheat crop from 1909 to 1913 was GSG.000,000 bushels, while the 191-1 crop totaled the enormous enor-mous sum of S91.000.000 bushels, which brings this year's crop, based oa conservative estimates. The Christian Herald. oo Paul Gullck, who has been burning the midnight oil getting out the Universal Uni-versal Weekly, will enjoy a two weeks' vacation In September. FontalneFerry Park, Louisville, has installed a free picture show in tho open air. wt By a awasaeswHWCTH fw |