Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1919 — GREATEST WHEAT CROP ON RECORD IS INDICATED. [ARTICLE]

GREATEST WHEAT CROP ON RECORD IS INDICATED.

A wheat crop of 1,236,000,000 bushels and a yield of 3,021,000,000 bushels of feed grains, wheat, oats, rye and barley, the largest on record at this season, is estimated by the June report Of the department of agriculture. _ The aggregate gain of the four grains us 223,000,000 bushels, or 8 per cent in excess of the harvest of last year. The wheat crop alone is by far the greatest on record, increasing 319,000,000 bushels, or 34 per cent over last year, and 210,000,000 bushels, or 24 per cent above the record in 1915, and 445,000,000 bushels over the five-year average of 191217. Based on $2.26 per bushel at Chicago, the wheat crop is worth $2,793,000,000, and on is 2, the valuation is $2,472,000,000. This means prosperity for the farmers and business interests and railroads. Permit System Planned. The crop is so large that it is to be handled by the railroads on the permit system.. Enough wheat is in sight to give Europe 600,000,000 bushels and leave 636,000,000 bushels for domestic consumption. Millers, grainmen, bakers, and others are to meet in New York with Julius H. Barnes, the wheat director of the United States Grain corporation, today to formulate plans for handling the crop. It is expected that the government will make good its guarantee to the farmer and take its loss through sales of floiir through millers, which will lower the cost of flour, to the public inside of sixty days.