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Show According toanofilcialreporton the prospects of the wheat crops in the Punjab, the spring harvest b likely to prove anything but n good one. At the end of January it was estimated that the area under cult! vation w as less by five per cent than it had been the year before, the actual decrease being put at as much as 343,600 acres. On bnds irrigated by the great canals of Upper India the crops promised Well, but where the cultivators only depend on the winter rains, a long continued drouth has bad the worst 'effect The Allahabad runeer states that the position b much the same In thn northwest provinces. In tbo 3Ico-rut 3Ico-rut and Kobilkund division the wheat harvest Is expected to be 40 percent below a full average crop. |