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The article offers travel tips for Turkey, which include trip to Mount Nemrut; underground secrets at Cappadoccia; and recommendation for Pool of Hierapolis and Pamukkale.

Reports on the surplus of wheat crop in Russia. Acres of land used for planting wheat; Agricultural methods to enhance survival of the crop; Increase cost of production per bushel.

The article reports on wheat production in Russia.

Presents an appeal to members of the U.S.-based National Geographic Society to stop the consumption of wheat bread, wheat cereals till the harvest of new wheat crop as of April 1918. Reason for the appeal; Quantity of wheat consumed in the U.S. each month.

The article reports that the prices of wheat and wheat products have increased throughout the world in 2008. In Peru, military members, prisoners, and students are given bread made from potatoes because bad weather and high demand created a shortage of wheat. Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist for the United Nations (UN), says that people should plant more wheat.

Discusses the plants Bruce Bugbee of Utah State University has arrayed in computer-controlled growth chambers that represent a short variety of wheat he and his colleagues bred to grow in space. Brief details about his efforts that began with the Superdwarf, a poor-yielding eight-inch high variety.

Reports on the experiments conducted by state engineer Fred Bond in growing wheat without irrigation in Colorado and Wyoming. Insights of a theory applied to wheat propagation; Use of the Fife wheat in planting; Emphasis of the successful experiment to be applied in practical farming.