AMERICAN CROPS
FARM VALUE THIS YEAR PRODUCTION OF WHEAT Washington, December 18. The Department of Agriculture has announced the total farm value of the leading. United States crops in 1929 as 8,580,528,000 dollars, compared with 8,495,788,000 dollars in 1928. The winter wheat production in 1929 was 578,336,000 bushels, at 1 dollar 6 cents a bushel. The durum wheat 1 amounted to 52,380,000 bushels, at 88 cents a bushel. Other spring wheat amounted to 175,792,000 bushels, at 1 dollar l .cent a bushel. LOANS TO ELEVATOR OPERATORS Washington, December 18. President Barnes, of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and an elevator grain dealer himself, testifying before .the Senate, said that the Federal Farm Board was tending to over-estimate the production of wheat, and protested at the board’s loan to co-operatives at 31 per cent, as unfair, while private elevator operators were compelled to pay 6 per cent, elsewhere.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 7
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148AMERICAN CROPS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 7
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