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Show COTTON CROP POOR Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 9. Tho bulletin of the ministry of agriculture, dated October 1, gives the condition of the cotton crop in lower Egypt as 10 per cent and In upper Egypt as four per cent below the averago. The pink boll worm attack has considerably increased in-creased in Intensity throughout upper Egypt. Picking fcv now general and in some i i j places the first picking'has been com pleted, but tho yield is very uneven, I On the whole, the crop this year Is i likely to be appreciably below aver- : age. ;-: oo !-i |