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Show H 00 H NO GREAT SURPLUS H OF WHEAT. H There is much said about the Rus- H sian wheat crop and its possible ef- B feet on world's prices, if once released H by the opening of the Dardanelles, H and ono of our exchanges speculates H on the prospects of the Czar's troops H gaining possession of that water way, H in the following: H "The fall of Erzerum was such a H crushing disaster for the Turkish H arms that, it is believed, that govern- H ment can henceforth offer but a fee- H ble and ineffective resistance to a H Russian advance on Constantinople. H Some more or less authoritative ad- H vices persist In saying that Turkey H already seeks to make a separate H peace with the entente allies. In all H probability these stories are true, but H It is not necessary to believe them H in order to understand that the road B for the shipment of Russian wheat H down to the Bosphorus and out f through the Dardanelles will soon be M open. Wlien it is, the flood of Rus- H slan grain will rapidly reduce prices H in Liverpool, and, consequently, at all H of the primary markets in this coun- H try. How far the reduction will go H it is impossible to say, but some re- H auction is inevitable. The Teutonic H allies have apparently abandoned both H Turkey and Bulgaria temporarily at H leasts to make a combined and tre- H inendous assault, or series of assaults, H along the western lines of battle. Aus- H trian as well as German troop are par- H ticipating in the attack on Verdun, H which is being made without a weak- H ening of the German line at any point H in Belgium or in France. Russia's H road to Constantinople is now prob- H ably open for all but such opposition M as the defeated and demoralized Turk H can offer." M An expert on wheat, who was in M Ogden last week, stated that Russia H can have no great surplus of wheat. H The weevil, he declared, exists in the H wheat belt of Russia, just as it does in the United States, and wherever wheat is Infested with the weevil, the keeping quality of tho grain, except under most favorable conditions, is so i educed that the stored product will not keep two years. In a warm climnto such as Texas, tho wheat crop has to be moved out of the state immediately im-mediately after harvest, even though later Texas is compelled to Import wheat to meet its own demands for flour. Utah and Idaho wheat has weevil in it, but in this climate the Insect does not develop rapidly and the damage dam-age Is comparatively small, but in warmer places, as along the Black sea ports of Russia, tho weevil must be very destructive. |