AMERICA'S WHEAT.
BETTER PRICES HOPED FOR.
ESTIMATES BELOW USUAL.
(U'.-Lived 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June. 9. The Secretary or Agriculture, Mr. JariliiH,, expressed a hope for better prices lot wheat than had liitlicrto prevailed. Ife pointed out that this year's yield will lie lower than the 1020, and asserted that estimates indicated that the crop would be 3JJ.000.000 bushels loss. But the new" estimates are exported shortly and will increase the diminution, which shortagn naturally tenilcd to increase prices. Mr. Jardine said there had been some drought iu Oklahoma and Colorado, but iu othei" parts of tlie West which is visited on a recent trip, the crop was He believed the price of wheal now was the crop price. A message from Washington states that 337.001.000 bushels of winter wheat are indicated, the production being 72 per cent norma!, according: to a Department oi Agriculture announcement.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1927, Page 4
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