Farmer and stockbreeder . TO READERS Would our readers please show The Farmer aad Stockbreeder totheir neighbours, aad ask them tobecome subscribers ? LONDON GRAIN The firs!, lialf of July had ovei- t lire. inches ofrainfall, hot us hope, that Saint s showerswere those of a concluding wot period, and not tiicconunencenient of a fresh spell of rain. Ihe wheatnow needs a month of dry heat for ripening andharvesting. The American crop estimate ot theWasliin^ton Bureau is before us, and its very curiousfigures arc worth studying. They are as^ follow :1920 825; 1919, 863: ten years average,
Farmer and stockbreeder . TO READERS Would our readers please show The Farmer aad Stockbreeder totheir neighbours, aad ask them tobecome subscribers ? LONDON GRAIN The firs!, lialf of July had ovei- t lire. inches ofrainfall, hot us hope, that Saint s showerswere those of a concluding wot period, and not tiicconunencenient of a fresh spell of rain. Ihe wheatnow needs a month of dry heat for ripening andharvesting. The American crop estimate ot theWasliin^ton Bureau is before us, and its very curiousfigures arc worth studying. They are as^ follow :1920 825; 1919, 863: ten years average, 816. 1 leseare such utterly diftercnt figures froni anything thatis put forth in Kurope \%i a number ot conflict-iue interpretationsOf American crop news is apt *ont us. What the American Bureau does isthis It reckons 1,000 points for a well-sown cropwhich proceeds equally from start to hmsh withoutanv check, and then it deducts all coulretemps ofthe passing season. Thus we see the ten yearsaverage of only 816 poi
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