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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 23 August 1915, Page 8

“The United States Government crop report is surprisingly favourable, ” says the American Review. “With-the largest acreage of winter wheat ever known, the crop condition had improved radically during April, and the estimate of the yield was 69.1,000,000 bushels, breaking all records in our history. This surpassed expectations of the experts by about 20,000.000 bushels. Not only had the condition improved: the lost acreage was the smallest since 1902.” The Panama Canal was used on July 16 for the first time by large battleships of the United States Navy, when the Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin, carrying naval cadets from Annapolis to San Francisco, made the trip from the Atlantic, to the Pacific. The battleships, which composed the naval aceden!y practice squadron, were in command of Rear-Admiral William F. Fullam, superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The squadron left Cristobel at 10 o’clock in the morning and reached Galliad Cut and passed the slide there about 2 o’clock. The battleships reached Balboa, the Pacific terminal of the canal, at 6 p.m.

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