Show CROP REPORT NOT FAVORABLE wheat decreased in average and condit on below average for ten years washington the crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture finds from the reports of correspondents and agents of the bureau as follows preliminary returns on the acreage of spring wheat sown indicate an a area ea of about 16 46 acres a decrease of 1242 1 acres or 7 per cent as compared aith the final es dimate of the acreage sown last lost year 17 acres the average condition of spring wheat on june I 1 was 83 7 as corn com pared with 9 au 4 at the corresponding date last year 93 7 on june 1 1900 and a ten year average of 0 93 3 the total area reported in oats is about 31 acres an increase of acres or 17 per cent as compared with the final estimate of the area sown last year 30 the average condition of oats on june I 1 was 81 6 G against 85 9 on june 1 1906 92 9 at the corresponding date in 1905 and a ten vear average of 89 7 |