Show CONDITION OF WHEAT CROP favorable report Kec elved to winter groin duns review commenting on the condition of the wheat crop says from the branches and a large number of correspondents in the winter wheat belt show the condition of the growing grain generally favorable in ohio kentucky indiana and illinois the acreage ie reduced owing to partial failure last year and the mild winter in some sections has been unfavorable fears are expressed in some quarters that the ravages of the hessian fly will be serious and especially it the present dry weather continue in scattered sections of illinois kentucky and tennessee the winter grain was killed and farmers are plowing it under dry weather during the fall months did much damage in kentucky and in tennessee the changeable weather of the early winter and the lack of rain causing considerable injury in illinois the wet weather is now helping grain and it is hoped that a continuation will enable the grain to outgrow the fly in michigan the acreage is less than last year but the grain wintered well and damage by the fly will not materially reduce the crop rhe best reports come from the southwest in missouri the grain has wintered well and a large yield e ear pecked in kansas oklahoma and the panhandle of texas there is a con eid erable increase in acreage and the condition of the grain was never better wet weather has prevented damage by the fly in other parts of texa the acreage has been reduce the grain wintered well but ravage by insects is feared |