Show Report on Growing Crops I WASHINGTON Deo 10Tho report of the department of agriculture gives tho condition of growing wheat as 853 Returns Re-turns showing the condition of coming crops of winter grains aro not generally favorable On tho Atlantic coast generaly jury is reported on early sown cereals from I I the Hessian fly The season is not favorable favor-able for seeding in the south on account of the continued dry weather and germina I tion is slow from the same cause Rains in the late autumn have improved the prospect In the western states seeding is lateseed beds hard andcloddygermination rmlnaton slow and growth unfavorable until Novem ber when material a Improvement was neon in most fields In some districts the Hessian fy has mado its appearance caus ing damage The crop is S53 The average aver-age is 97 The condition of rye is a little higher than that of wheat making an average aver-age of 888 Returns duly consolidated mako the average av-erage farm value of the current crop of the year Corn 422 cents per bushel wheat M5S rye 774 barley 5I oats 232 buckwheat buck-wheat 579 potatoes 371 tObacco cigar leaf 141 per pound manufacturing and export leaf 75 hay 839 per ton The price of corn is 29 cents per bushel more than the average of ton years from 1S80 and only fourtoaths of a cent less than the average of the decade from 1870 In the states of largest production the prices are Ohio 41 cents Indiana 38 Illinois 37 Iowa 30 Missouri 38 Kansas 34 Nebraska 26 The latter stata where corn is the cheapest has reported a higher value xmly four times in fifteen years The average value of the whole crop since 1883 has been higher only in 1837 and 1890 when the yield was only about twenty bushels per acre Tho value of the wheat crop is S5 cents per bushel higher than the average ten years from 18S0 and has been exceeded only once in 1888 since 1883 in the states of the Atlantic Atan tic coast and on the Gulf of Mexico except Texas value is from 11 to 115 in the Ohio valley from 85 to 89 cents beyond the Mississippi from 70 in North Dakota to 81 in Iowa Only once since 1883 has the price of oats been as high as at present 322 cents which is 13 cents higher than the > k2 1 average of ten years from 1SSO The prices of all cereals aro remarkably sustained in view of the abundance of production |