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Show BIG SHORTAGE IN WHEAT CROP Winter Wheat Estimate 160,- 045,000 Bushels Below 1915 and 185,990,000 Bushels Less Than 1914. Washington, April 7. A total of 195,000,000 bushels of winter wheat was forecast today by the department of agriculture basing; its estimate on the condition of tho crop April 1 and an assumption of average abandon- ment of acreage and average influences influ-ences on the crop harvest. That compares with G55.045.000 bushels, the estimated production in 1915 and 684,990,000 bushels In 1914 ' 1 w?cd7R,n Wlnter whea'L on April 1 was 78.3 of a normal, against 88.3 last year, 95 6 in 1914, and 87.3 the nveraee for the last ten years. There was a decrease In condition from De- CGmbHer l.i AprI1 X of A PolSTcom-pared PolSTcom-pared with an average decline of 3 5 points between those dates in the last ten years The average condition of rye on April 1 was 87.8 per cent of a normal against 89.5 on April 1 last yew 3 in 1914, and 89.9, the average tor the last ten years. ing illustration of the cheapness of - aiS?,p and ra'li-oad transportation transporta-tion before the present conflict. 'The KS.f1 that a man in Minneapolis ?w ' at- one of tne Ereat mla ln that flouring capital of the world, two barrels of flour. Ono barrel he ordered, put on a dray and delivered to Ms home in the outlying part of Minneapolis Min-neapolis . the other he put into a car that was being loaded for seaboard, steamship, and Liverpool. He kept tabs on the expense of both deliveries. ai?d Z ln thoy had Deea made found taat it had cost him a trifle more to !SJVefi,thearrel hy dra' In Minnea- ! polls than the barrel that went -1,000 miles hy rail and steamship of Liver- " pool!" It Is needless to add that this was 'before the war." 1 oo I |