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...fibre and steep water to make a product - corn gluten feed, which is sold to the dairy industry. For each bushel of corn ground, approximately 7 gal. of 4°-5° of Be' "steep water" are obtained. Based on a yearly industry grind of 60,000,000 bu., the amount of "steep water" amounts to approximately 400,000,000 gal. instead of quarts as published...
Within a few days the shrewd crop estimators in the big Chicago grain firms announced forecasts averaging 537,000,000 bu. for the 1936 U. S. winter wheat harvest. Together with a spring wheat crop of perhaps 200,000,000 bu., that would put the U. S. on an export basis once again, since domestic needs run around 630,000,000 bu. annually. And steady selling drove down the price of wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade from $1 per bu. early last month to a low of 93¼? last week...
Then the U. S. Crop Reporting Board dampened all this market bearishness more effectively than rain had dampened Kansas. Predicting that 21% of all acreage sown last autumn would be abandoned, it forecast a winter wheat crop of only 493,000,000 bu. for 1936,60,000,000 bu. more than was harvested in lean 1935 but far below the 618.000,000 bu. average for the five preceding years...
...past few weeks. If the Crimson wins tonight it will be the first series which Harvard has ever taken in two straight, and, what is more, it will clinch for the Moseleymen the championship of the Quadrangular League, and a reputation as the best Harvard team in years. Bu it will be no giveaway, as those who follow Harvard-Yale hockey fortunes well know, and fans who go to the Arena in New Haven tonight at 8 o'clock expect to see a fight to the finish...
...price of wheat was about $1 per bu., virtually the same as at the end of 1934. Cotton at 11½? per lb. was nearly 1? cheaper. Copper cost 8¼? per lb., up nearly 2?. Coffee at 8? per 1b. was down 2½?. Hogs at $9.20 per cwt. were...