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Show ii RAINS SAVE WHEAT p" AND GRAIN BELTS KANSAS CITY, Mo.. April 12 Rains - J tImt soaked tho wheat and grain belts j of Oklahoma and Kansas yesterday J saved thousands of acres that would I have ruined had the drought continued ' a few days more, according to tho t opinions expressed today by agricul- tural experts. I Frank M. Gault, president of the I state board of agrlculturo of Okla- homa, declared last night that if the r rain continued today the wheat crop 7 In that stato would bo from 20,000 000 I. to 23,000,000 bushels in contrast to r last year's crop of 27,000,000. f Tho situation in Kansas was summed X up by J. C. Mohler, tho secretary of i tho state board of agrlculturo, with a btatement that the general rain would save much of the grain and that it w- had been of "untold value" to the T-' winter wheat, Unofficial messages received told or rains early today in south, central and southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma. |