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Show Grain Crop. Washington, 27. Agriculture, returns for October show the whea; crop of the present year is a short one and there is a marked deterioration in the quality. The average thus far reported is about eighty per ceut. cf last year's production. If this indicates indi-cates tho total depreciation :t amounts to nearly 62,000,000 bushelf, and gives the crop at 246,000,001 bushels. In quality the crop avei-uges avei-uges fourteen per cent, below sound condition. Corn is exceptionally excep-tionally high. The product reported this year falls Bhort of thbt of 1874 about four per cent. Oit product, five per cent, greater than last year's total. The crop promises to be extraordinary, both in yied and quality. Tobacco, two per cent, above the average. Barley, eightj-seven eightj-seven per cent of last year's crop, ard buckwheat not far from average. |