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Show WHEAT CROP WILL MEETHOME NEEDS Will Be Enough Left for Normal Nor-mal Export Requirements Unusually Large j iarry-over. ShIngton' Aus 10. This year's SSfrS, orP win bs sufficient for the neeao of home consumption and there win be enough left to meet normal nor-mal export requirements. That is the Jo?7 , Kvernment officials, who said today the sensational rise in 'W'ueot prices and a corresponding increase in-crease In the price of flour following the government's last report indicating indicat-ing a crop about two-thirds the size iB yr'B' waB the reflult of the market adjusting itBelf from a crop or abnormal proportions to one of much. smaller size. Exports of the departmont of aerl-5? aerl-5? S Ca!CM ate 620.000.000 bushels of wheat will be required for home consumption this year A eron nt 354,000 000 bushed forecast from oSSfno I cLn?ltlons ld leave 34 -b,U8h0lfl o thl8 year's crop tvaJJablo-Jor exportation. In addition there was an unusual large carry-over ?, v. from Iast crop. With the carry-over of old wheat and the surplus of this year's estimat- i ed crop, officials believo the United States will have at least 160,000,000 bushels available for export purposes. ,J,n ,nrmal years the export of ?k nann SS1UKdI,!f ?UT' averases about . 125,000,000 bushels. In tho first year of the European war 333,000,000 bush- ' els were exported and the last year tho total was about 250,000,000 bush- oo |