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Show CIRAIN CROP STATISTICS. Condition In I'uropo Hliuun to bo Very J'ltt untitle. Washington, May 11. Tho grain crop statistics which supplement the recent winter grain report of agriculture agricul-ture show that tho winter grain conditions con-ditions almost everywhere In Europo uro favorable. Russian reports complain com-plain of deficient grain, but tho general gen-eral condition is represented as satisfactory. satis-factory. Llttlu If any harm scorns to havo been dono by the sevcro cold weather In March In tho western country nnd reports of spring cultivation und seeding seed-ing are favorable. Considerably lessF than a "normal" c"rop, 'approximately three-fourths, Is Indicated for India as a whole, Hengal alono reporting un-equivocacy un-equivocacy good out-turns. Itoumanla reports 1898 wheat .18,456,901 bushels; rye, 7,218,088, maize, 88,000,000. This Is a largo gain over 1897. Austria 1898 wheat crop Is reported at 40,400,000 bushels. Italy's wheat crop for 1898 Is ofllclally put at 13,371,000 bushels. In Argentina tho area under wheat for 1898-9 from which tho crop was recently re-cently gathered, has been officially estimated at 0,1.10,319 acres and tho aggregate product Is unolllclally estimated esti-mated at 70,000,000 bushels. Tho United Stntesmlnlstcrntllucnos Ayres roports that tho quality of tho wheat crop Is fairly good nnd tho yield extraordinary. Tho maize crop now gat! ring Is, liku wheat, a good one. Iq tho United Kingdom, tho Increase In, the wheat crop over that for 1897 was 18,038,321 bushels, a pcrcentago of ncrcaso nearly three times us great In production as lu area. |