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Show WORLD'S WHEAT CROP HAS GOOD OUTLOOK WASHINGTON, April 15. The European Euro-pean crop report of the Department of Agriculture, covering conditions abroad up to April 1, says the heavy snow, which fell last winter over the greater part of Europe has, excepting in parts of Russia and of the Balkan States, almost everywhere disappeared. That the protection pro-tection afforded to winter cereals has been pretty generally efficacious la being demonstrated by the vigor with which the plants in most countries seem to be responding re-sponding to the quickening influences of spring. The report continues: "In western Europe the exceptionally cold winter has probably had no deleterious delete-rious effect upon vegetation sufficient to affect general results at harvest. In Central Cen-tral Europe growth generally la in a less advanced stage and knowledge of actual conditions less positive: the winter wheat crop of Germany Is known to have suffered suf-fered to quite appreciable extent, ,and recent news vaguely indicates damage to the autumn sown crops of Austria and Hungary. |