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Show WILL BE A "BAD NILE" - j Rice Crop Has Suffered, but Cotton Will Break the Record. NEW YORK. Aug. is.-The Herald's European edition publishes the following from its correspondent at Alexandria- "Egypt's official report of the Nile flood A Bad Nile has been declared. At An. rSua.nK. 18 tnr metres bew the thirty years' average. low "Cotton, the crop of which, has been saved by the Assouan reservoir "is pected to be a record-breaker. The cotton cot-ton worm Is practically exterminate! The rice crop has suffered in many places' The surah crop is late. . "Irrigation; of the delta and middle Egypt is assured by barrages. In uppe? Egypt the crops are doubtful, as larra areas must remain unlrrlgated." |