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Show LIGHT APPLE CROP. J Only a Few Producing States Report Satisfactory Yield, Washington, Oct. 3. The weekly crop bulletin of the weather bureau says: An exceptionally large and -fine yield of corn is now assured over much of the greater part of the corn belt and oniy a very small part of the crop in the north central nortion, estimated at from two to five per cent of the total, remains exposed to injury from frost and this is maturing rapidly. A light apple crop was reported nearly everywhere, only a few apple-producing" states indicating satisfactory yields. . Owing to the extensive prevalence of blight and rot in the principal potato producing pro-ducing states a light crop of potatoes of inferior quality is generally promised. North Pacific coast dry soil conditions have not been favorable for plowing and seeding. , |