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Show The Condition of Crops. Washington, April 12. Tho April report of the statistician of thedepart-ment thedepart-ment of agrlculturo will show tho average condition of winter wheat on April 1 to havo been 77.0 against 80.7 on April 1, 1898; 81.4 on April 1, 1897, and a ten-year average of 84.4. Of the thirty states producing winter wheat, twenty-six containing over 70 per cent, of the total w Inter wheat acreage, report a condition below their respective year average. Tho average condition of winter ryo Is 84.4 against 93.1 on April 1, 1899; 88.9 on April 1, 1898; 88.5 April 1, 1897, and a ten-year average of 90. |