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Show 0. S. MAY SOQ i Consuming Needs Are! Overtaking Largj Plantings i WASHINGTON. x0, ,, - standing fact facing thn 7A wheat rarmer, says n.: , A-?l book of the department or,nifl is that while the n? rnSlI lion of wheat ft, if. Pil1 e steadily Increased, thew W gradual decrease. ', " hM ductlon This tendency nrf1 continue. It l3 added? a? iS the United States reach!, ft whore It consumes practiM ,he the wheat It produce. Tho economic oltuatlon of i crop, production and markniiris seeding to International traJS sonted In tho yearbook Jffl slon Is the rosult of combined ; and study by a number of't lion fl leading agronomists d cultural economists connecteR department. j It Is shown that nearly a the fanners In the United Stai wheat. Only corn an dhay ,8 bread crop In acres occunleflS mally only these iwocro?, Jn? exceed wheat In aluo The Z as a whole has much to do prosperity of the nation yearbook, bceauao the rrllnl into foreign trade to a creat.' than any other crop cxcVpt cS Ine country has exported a of wheal in every year of ii? escept 1S36, besides keoplne with an over-Increasing demt home. During the past 20 yeiF ever, th0 yearbook states the' of exports has decreased cxwrj the artificial stimulation of th, war. H Because of improvement? in processes which mako brea4 m tractive, increasing pro3porty I increasing proportion of theT Hon In the cities, tho per cani sumption of wheat ha3 Incri the United Slates for the years. City dwellers eat more brj capita, than country resident cause of tho lack of gardens ii tho comparative cheapness ol aud because no home cook necessary. The fact that tho t population Is toward cltlejl' have much hearing on the futq sumption of borad. it i3 .stati Beforo 1S50 the per caplU sumption of whoat in this coun 3.8 bushels, from 1875 to 1S8I 1.9 bushels, and from 18352 5.6 bushols The rising trend tcrruptod by the world at. pnrtment officials bolieve It 6 lesumed. f It the nation Is to increase II ration to any great extent! grow more Rheat or import ItJ partment says "Jrf |