Looking Up

The weather was national news again, and this time, good news: the warm June sun had repaired much of the contrary spring's damage. Now that the wheat was at harvest and the corn growing fast, the late freezes and May's disastrous floods were all but forgotten. Barring drought, this would not be a bad year after all.

The Agriculture Department, in its all-important July crop report, now forecasts:

>Total farm production about 10% below last year's record harvest.

>A 791,000,000-bushel wheat crop, 19% under last year but still close to average.

>Bumper crops of such staples as potatoes, peas, dry beans, rice.

>Larger crops than last year of snap beans, carrots, tomatoes.

>About as many oranges, lemons and grapefruit as last year.

>A short crop (12% less than last year, 6% below the last ten years' average) of peaches, pears, cherries and some other fruits.

>About 107,000,000 tons of feed grains (corn, oats, barley, sorghum), 14% below last year but 7% above average.

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