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Mason Carbaugti,Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Commerce, said that the bublets that appeared in last year’s crop and caused discounted prices and a reluctance of buyers to purchase are expected to be of concern again this year. Excessive garlic in last year’s wheat resulted in discounts that cost Virginia farmers over two million dollars.

The Commissioner noted that the state’s farms seeded 330,000 acres of winter wheat in the fall of 1974 for harvest this year. This

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