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Show DISGOjURAGING British Farmers Complain of Late Treason and Serious Damage. LONDON, April 28. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associated Press.) Reports Re-ports of the agricultural outlook in Great Britain are almost uniformly discouraging. dis-couraging. Not even the oldest farmer farm-er recalls a trying time through which ho has just been passing. A late sowing, a poor yield, a wet autumn and I a severe winter have been followed by,' a spring with all the marked charac-. terlstics of December. The state of the fields is called in all tho agricultural agricul-tural reports "serious damage," although al-though it is still possible that a period of warm weather might change the situation by tho end of May. The history of many of the best of tho British crops this year Is a story of sowing In November and resowlng in April. In many cases tho autumn sowing sow-ing was destroyed completely and somo fresh schemo had to be hastily devised. The wheat aroa, it Is stated, cannot be large this year. Oats cannot yet bo estimated and barley for some reason rea-son is in disfavor. In the middle of April farmers were still awaiting a favorable moment to push ahead tholr planting |