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Show RUSSIA'S CS1P CnR'TIORSQ DPH UftU. I IbHu OnU BERLIN. Sept. C The official crop report, made public today, describes conditions throughout Piussia In gloomy terms. The prolonged drought not only burned the crops, but also caused such a plague of Held mlco, l.ij ae and other crop destroyers that great fears are entertained for the winter. Crops of potatoes and sugar beets aro of the puniest r.in.l. Fodder crops suffered so severely that owners are selling oft their cattle, despairing or means to kep them ihrorgh the winter. win-ter. Pnsturago has already pai'ly or wholly shriveled ( up. LltMe progress lias been made toward to-ward winter crops. The soil Is baked eo hard that plowing Is dlfllcult and sowing impossible. . |