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Show H ( "" i GOOD CROP CONDITIONS. 1 A further broadening tendency has been shown in the financial M situation this week. The -market for stock exchange securities may M now be regarded as having reached the stage where it is performing H its usual function of discounting not alone the agricultural prospects' M but also the improvement in trade and industry that in turn will M follow the satisfactory 3nelds of our farm lands that are in pros- M pect says Henry Clews, the New York banker, in reviewing the H conditions of last week. 0 Thursday the government issued its H grain report, showing conditions as of June 1. As usual there was M .some deterioration in winter wheat during the month of Mav but H the outlook, in view of tho increased acreage this vcar, is for an H out-turn of approximately 480,000,000 bushels. This, if fulfilled will M mean a harvest that has not been equaled since 1906. It is worth re- M calling that at this season the winter wheat crop is fairly well as- H sured. Harvesting is already in progress in Texas, Oklahoma, Mis- H sour, and Kansas, aria another fortnight or three weeks will place M winter wheat as an assured asset for 1911. The government's initial H report on spring wheat, just issued, is also an encouraging feature H the condition of 94.6 confirming the known favorable seeding con- M dlt.,1ons- .rif ca showed an increase of a million acres, and the Tr 1 'Vield f 284'370'000 buhcls. vWch compares with H the fina harvest return of 233,399,000 bushels last year. No official m report on the area planted to corn will be available until " , from now but usually reliable advices from the leading cento I ' SlI 1 T eSt Uiat thl'S' Which is th st inrtant e"op H il also demand recognition in the list of favorable stock market H tho look to th IT ' " n Wf l UbOV0 the aVCraee' so that t0 those H I. J t theBncullural Sections of th country as their guide M Lent t T T?' U,C Utl0k is 0ne of dinct cQ- "we dfd PnTha th " " ' Wuld be Qu norma yc'ar H i. Me did not have the usual crop scares and exaggerations Thus H we are upon the Uireshhqld of what may be termed tLnn T! season which .neans a period of activeUm Sot InZriT |