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Show HOLD CROP PROSPECTS GENERALLY SATISFACTORY WASHINGTON. June 2S. Good crop-growing crop-growing weather throughout the country prevallod during the week ending yesterday, yester-day, according to tho weekly weather bulletin of the department of agriculture. It says: "In tho states of the spring wheat sections sec-tions Improvement Is duo to timely rnln, that occurred In the more southern portions por-tions of the district. High temperatures arc again prevailing. No rainfall has occurred oc-curred over the more northern portions, especially of North Dakota and tho northern portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Wis-consin. Rain In abundance Is neoded. "Some good rains occurred In the western west-ern portions of the groat plains states, but it Is generally becoming too dry along the entire slope of the Rocky mountains moun-tains To the west of tho Rockies, temperatures tem-peratures wcro generally favorable, but It Is becoming very dry' on the ranges, especially In the central and southern portions, where the rainfall has been unusually un-usually deficient, and much damage has resulted. Irrigation water is holding out well In tho northern portions, but In the central and southern sections the streams are getting low. "The week was unusually free from destructive de-structive storms of any kind." |