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Show ! Government Announces Greatest Agricultural Event in History, PROMISE LARGE CROP. j Area Sawn This Fall Is! Forty-nine Million Acres. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1C The largest larg-est winter wheat crop ever grown In tho history of the United States is promised by the enormous acreage sown this fall. The acreage is almost 16 per- cent larger than last year's and totals 49,027,000 acres. The area sown to rye is G.S20.000 acres, which is 1.7 per .cent more than the revised estimated area sown in the fall of 1917, which was G.70S.00D acres. Tho condition of the crop on December Decem-ber 1 was S9.0 per com of a normal, compared with S 1,1 a year ago with I 0S.S in 191G and a ten year average of I 91.4. A crop of 765.000,000 bushels, or 80,000.000 bushels more than the best record, is forecast by the department' of agriculture as next year's winter' wheat yield, allowing for winter killing nnd spring abandonment. Last year's ' crop was 5p5. 725.000 bushels. j This rye acreage this autumn is . slightly larger than last, being 6.S20,-! 000. comparod with G.708.000 acres. The condition is S9 per ccr.t, compared with 84.1 per cent last year and 91.4 average, the condition being held down by poor conditions in the Important! produring states of North and South' Dakota. |