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Show in One way to grasp the meaning of the crop figures this year is to translate trans-late them Into other terms than bushels. bu-shels. For example, our billion bushels bu-shels of wheat is enough for our own ,use and 400,000 car loads to sell abroad 8,000 trains of 5 0 freight cars each, and 1,000 bushels in every car. Counting only what goes to narket, all the crops combined make 150,000,000 tons of freight for the railways to handle enough to fill a ; freight train that would reach twice round the world. nil |