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Show GRAIN CROP STATISTICS. Condition In Europe Shown to be Very Favorable. Washington, May 11. The grain crop statistics which supplement the recent winter grain report of agriculture agricul-ture show that the winter grain conditions con-ditions almost everywhere in Europe are favorable. Russian reports complain com-plain of deficient grain, but the general gen-eral condition is represented as satisfactory. satis-factory. Little if any harm seems to have been done by the severe cold weather In March in the western country and reports of spring cultivation and seeding seed-ing are favorable. Considerably less than a normal crop, approximately three-fourths, is indicated for India as a whole, Bengal alone reporting unequivocally un-equivocally good out-turns. Roumanla. reports 1898 wheat 58,456,904 bushels rye, -7,258,688, maize, 83,000,000. This is a large gain over 1897. Austria 1898 wheat crop is reported at 46,400,000 bushels. Italy's wheat crop for 1898 is officially put at 13,371,000 bushels. In Argentina the area under wheat for 1898-9 from which the crop was recently re-cently gathered, has been officially estimated at 6,150,319 acres and the aggregate product is unofficially estimated esti-mated at 70,000,000 bushels. The United States minister at Buenos Ayres reports that the quality of the wheat crop is fairly good and the yield extraordinary. The maize crop now gathering is, like wheat, a good one. In the United Kingdom, the increase in the wheat crop over that for 1S97 was 18,088,321 bushels, a percentage of n crease nearly three times as great in production as In area. |