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Show CROPS. Russia's rye crop is r39,OO0,OO0 bushels. Tim Kansas wheat crop is 70,831,000 bushels. The: total hog slaughter last yoar was 18,100,530. , India has 27.000,000 acres in rice, 18,- 1 000,000 in wheat, 75.000,000 in other food grains, 1,000,000 in supar cane, 251,000 in tea, 10,000,000 in cotton, 1,-000.000 1,-000.000 in indigo, 300,000 in tobacco. From a bushel of corn a dealer pets four gallons of whisky, which retuils for S 10. Of this the government get ea.00, the retailer S7, the distiller ft4, the railroads 81 and the farmer who raised the corn 40 cents. It is estimated that Florida's crop of pineapples this year will ape-rebate 50,000 orates, or fully 2, 300,000 pineapples. pineap-ples. The prowcrs have been doing so ! well financially that the acreage set to1 pines is increasing very rapidly and it; is expected thnt the cr tp of la'j5 will amount to 100,1X10 crait. j |