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Show FIND COST OP RAISlfOT Department Gives Out Figures H Secured in" Survey of H Many Areas H WASHINGTON, June 21. The American wheat crop was produced at IH an average coat to the grower of $2.15 jH a bushel, the department of agricul- turc announced In making public Its jH recent cost of production survey. The , jH survey covered fourtcon representative jH districts of the wheat belt, nine in the ' IH winter wheat areas of Kansas, Nebraa- IH ka and Missouri and five in the spring IH wheat regions of Minnesota, North and South Dakota. IH The survey further revealed, tho department said, that to permit a jjH profit of SO per cent, of tho wheat ' produced on the farms covered by th survey, the price would have to be PH about ?2.G0. 7H Cost oZ producing winter wheat was f much lower than for spring wheat, tho costs being given as $1.87 and $2.65 respectively. "Dollar wheat," onco the aspiration jHf of wheat growers, would have paid ' tho co3t of production on only .two j IH of the -1 S 1 farms Included in the sur- |