A Big Wheat Crop.
■♦ ' . — Long trains of empty freight car? have rolled out of Kansas City for 2 weeks, and dropptd off in twos, threes, fives, on side tracks alon? the lines of the railroads in Missouri, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. These empty freight cars, of which there are thousands, will be filled with new wheat within 4' or 5 weeks. A tremendous grain ru*h i .•: expected, and the bept of manage ment by railroad officials will be needed to prevent"' a huga grain blockade or a grain car famine. Conservative estimates of crop statisticians place the yield of wheat for this year in Kansas alone at 60,000,000 bushels.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 September 1897, Page 2
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110A Big Wheat Crop. Manawatu Herald, 25 September 1897, Page 2
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