HIGH-PRICED WHEAT
IN CHICAGO MARKET
(By Telegraph—Press Association —copyright) (Received December 6, 9.30 a.m.)
CHICAGO. December 5. The highest wheat prices for the past two years were recorded with 95 cents a bushel quoted for December delivery. When the surveys were published indicating that the recent drought.gave winter wheat the poorest start on record the market soared on appreciating the fact that the survey showed 60 per cent, of normal. It is feared that the crop is the smallest since 1933. The estimated yield is 375,000,000 to 404,000,000 bushels on 41,300,000 to 43,900,000 acres.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 14
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