Show GRAIN CROP statistics condition in europe shown to be very Faso favorable rable washington may 11 the grain crop statistics which supplement the recent winter grain report of 0 agriculture show that the winter grain conditions almost everywhere in in europe are favorable russian kussian reports complain ot of deficient grain but tile the general condition is represented as satisfactory little it if any harm barm seems to have been done by the severe cold weather weaber in march in tile the western country and reports of spring cultivation and seeding are favorable considerably less than a normal crop approximately three fourths is indicated iudica ted for india as a whole bengal alone reporting unequivocally good out turns roumania reports 1898 wheat bushels rye maize this is a large gain over 1897 austria 1898 wheat crop is reported at bushels italy s wheat crop for 1898 is officially put at bushels in argentina the area under wheat for 1698 1898 9 from which the crop was recently gathered has been officially estimated at acres and the aggregate product is unofficially estimated at bushels the united states minister at buenos ayres reports that the quality of the wheat crop is fairly good and the yield extraordinary the maize crop now gathering is like wheat a good one in the united kingdom the increase in the wheat crop over that for 1897 was bushels a percentage of nerease nearly three times as great in production as in area |