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Show j TEXAS IN FIRST PLACE. ', Has the Honor of Being Premier Crop producing 6tate of Union. Washington Illinois again has yielded to Texas the honor of being premier crop producing state of the Union. Iowa holds her position as third, while Ohio lias loft to Missouri the honor of fourth place, tho department depart-ment of agriculture announced Saturday. Sat-urday. In 1912 Texas produced 407.-160,000 407.-160,000 iu the twelve crops reported quantitatively by the government-corn, government-corn, wheat, oais. barley, rye. buckwheat buck-wheat flaxseed, rice, potatoes, nay, bacto and lint cotton. The enormous cotton crop ely gave Texas a tig lead over the second largest crop producing pro-ducing state, Illinois, whose (ggre-gated (ggre-gated production was valued at I-H9.-326UOO. Iowa's crop value ag;rc;.tted 284.8.".nO0; M.snou-1'a, $19.?:"(0a0, and Ohio's $190,'. i.C0O. |