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Show 75 MILLION ACRES U.S. Boosts 1948 Wheat Goal WASHINGTON. Fourth largest wheat acreage the farmers of this nation have ever planted may bo realized In KM (5 If the department of agriculture's revised goal of 75 million acres Is met next year. That mark Is n five rrillllun-nere Increase front the pattern recommended recom-mended last year and n seven million-acre boost river tin.1 wheat goal set last spring hefoie the corn outlook took on Ity gloomy cast. Continued and unremitting international interna-tional demand for food grainii in-llueneeil in-llueneeil the agriciiltui e department Into making the upward revision. While officials admitted that the Increased acreage cfiiistltulefi an In. vltatioti to farmerrf to plant heavily In wheat, they cautioned against plowing up sod-lands not suited for sustained farming in order to take advantage of high wheat prices. However, an even more Important Impor-tant factor In determining the nation's na-tion's wheat acreage In HMD will be the lure of the two dullar-n-bu.'ihel market price. Department authorities authori-ties admitted Unit high market prices will do more to dictate the amount of wheal planted than could any arbitrarily assigned government govern-ment goal. The department iiald the 7fl million-acre goal, If achieved, would provide the fourth largest wheal acreage the farmers In the Hulled States havo ever planted. Higher plantings occurred In lit l!l, Kl.T mid JtKIII. Kstimatlng on tho basis of n 10-yenr 10-yenr average yield figure of 14.3 bushels an acre, the crop In ID-IB would he 1.07 billion bushels, hut If the outturn follows tho llMll-'ltl uver-ago uver-ago of 10.3 bushels an acre, production pro-duction would roach 1.221 billion bttshelii. In tho wake of Ibis year's bumper crop, ii much smaller 11)111 wheat yield noi'mally would lie Indicated; however, the world food slioi'lago makes It desirable, lU'Cunllng to do-pai'lineiit do-pai'lineiit i;pokcsiueii, that the United States continue Its high tfle of production.' 'I'll" United Nations him wiriicd that the world food situation sit-uation has pot Improved lu H'' I"1''1 year, mill pieillcln nhoiiagi'i will continue minlhcr two ycur. |