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Show ISSUED BY GOluD Cdifcmb S!ibvs b-provenent; b-provenent; OlhersKot Up to Averse. , WASHINGTON. Dec ' 11- The crop ' reporting- board of the bureau of statistics of the Department of ' Agriculture finds from the reports of the . correspondents and agents of the bureau as follows: The newly-seeded area ot winter wheat Is estimated esti-mated at 17,241.000 acres, an increase of . per cent over the area sown la the fall of 1904. The condition of winter wheat on December 1 was 84-1 as compared. with 82. In 1904; S6.6 in 1908 and a 'ten-year, average of Mi . .. A table showing for each.-of the. principal princi-pal States the percentage ' of acreage town to winter wheat this fall, the average aver-age condition on Decembers 1 of the present-year and the mean of , the December averages of the last ten years Include the following- compared with last year: .. . . . Ten-year .' i- average . J ' -' " condition .Stat,-,. . 1904. 1905. Dec. 1. Kansas 101 . 90 .93 California 84 ' 90 Oklahoma 94 , ; 96 ; ; 98 Tex&9-... ... 9ft 97 93 eaVSBBlBBBBBBBBBBMMSSBBSBaBBBBSSBSMSSBSlBaMB ' |