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Show WHEAT DROP OF MM. Department of Agriculture Makes Forecast on Crops of Nation WASHINGTON. July 9. Wheat production this year will be 609.00O.. 000 bushels, tho dopurtmiMit of agriculture agri-culture forecast today bnslnt; its intimate inti-mate on the condition July 1 of the combined winter and spring Wheal crops. Forecast on Corn. Production of corn Was forecast at 11.779. 000. 000 bushels and the area planted thifi year as 103.C4S.000 aoreA Other forecasts of production are: Winter wheat. .".1 8 000.000; spring wheat. 29l.00o.0O0, oats, 1,822,000,-; 000, bark-v, 193.000,000; rye. 82.000.-000; 82.000.-000; while potatoes. 388.000.00o. sweet potatoes, OS, 500, 000; tobacco, 1.-001,000,000 1.-001,000,000 pounds; flax. 14,400,000 bushels, rice, 52. 1 Oo.Oimi ; hay. si.mhi.-; si.mhi.-; 000 tons; apples (total). 200,000:0o0i bushels, apples (commercial), 30,-200 30,-200 000 barrels, peaches. 42.500,000 bushels WHEAT ON FARMS. Wheat remaining on farms July 1 Is estimated at 5.1 per cent of last i year's crop, or about 47.766.000 bushels, bush-els, comparod with 19.261,000 last year and 31.931 000, the five-year average. Acreage of crops not previously announced an-nounced Is: White potatoes, 3,849.-000; 3,849.-000; sweet potatoes, 1.022,000, tO-K-ic.-o, 1.859,700; flax, 1,706.000, rice, 1.346,71111 C ONDITION OF CROPS. Condition of the crops on July 1 was: Winter wheat T9 7 per cent of a normal, spring wheat, 88 0; all wheat, S2.5, corn, ;-4 6 pei -enl ; oat.-, . 84.7: barley. 87.6; rye. 83.5; white potatoes. po-tatoes. 89.3; sweet potatoes, 87.2. to-j to-j 1'acco. S4.3; flax. 89.1; rice, 90.0; hay, 1 85.5. apples, 70.7; peaches. 61.8. |