Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1917 — OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT IS POOR [ARTICLE]

OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT IS POOR

Condition of Crop Only 63.4 Per Cent of Normal. * Washington, D. C..,. April 7. —The winter wheat crop of the United States will be about 430,000,000 bushels, the department of agriculture announced today in its first estimate of ‘ the crop which was sown last autumn, on one of the largest ever planted, but which had adverse conditions through the winter. Last year 481,744,000 bushels were harvested, and 673,947,001) bushels were produced in 1915.