Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — PREDICT BUMPER WHEAT CHOP [ARTICLE]

PREDICT BUMPER WHEAT CHOP

Washington, June 4.—A bumper wheat crop is predicted by food administration oflicials on receipt of favorable reports from all parts of the United States. Actual yields, of both winter. and spring wheat will exceed the department of agriculture’s estimate, they say. Harvesting has begun in California, Texas, Kansas and southern Nebraska, and will rapidly extend northward through the wheat belt.

Winter wheat will yield close to 60Q,000;000 bushels if bad weather does not damage the crop just as harvest is setting jn, it is estimated. Spring Wheat totaling 232,758,000 bushels, 1917, will leap up possibly 25 per cent. Reports of favorable weather from the spring belt in the northwest encourages food administration officials. Warning is givepi that wheat must be saved. The direct threat at trans-Atlantic shipments, made by German i -boats, emphasizes Food Administrator Hoover’s determinato pile, up reserve wheat abroad. His plan is to stock Europe against temporary cutting of the line across the Atlantic by raiding U-boats,