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CROESEING DEE ONT ED. SanAaaSe 
The September report of the Statistician of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture at Washington furnishes the following 
particulars as to the condition of the principal crops in the 
United States on September rst, 1900. 
The average condition of the entire wheat crop when 
harvested was 69°8 or 1-1 points lower than the average of last 
year, and 16°9 points lower than that of 1898. 
The general average condition of maize was 80°6 or 4°6 
worse than at the corresponding date of last year. Oats had 
an average condition of 82:9, an improvement of 3°9 points 
on the average at the same date in 1898. Barley showed an 
average condition of 70°7, this being 16 points lower than that 
of last year. The average condition of potatoes was 80, or 
36 points worse than that recorded for the 1st September, 
1899, 

CROPS IN POLAND. 
A report received in July from Her Majesty's Acting 
Consul General in Poland stated that the Polish wheat crop, 
according to observations taken on June 18th, was 
estimated to be about 25 per cent. below the average, while 
rye was reported to be nearly 34 per cent. short of an average 
crop. But the results of the harvesting of winter grain, 
which began on or about July 14th, will, it is stated, 
show a considerable improvement on the above estimates 
so far as these cereals are concerned, and an average crop of 
both summer and winter grain was expected in the 
Lithuanian Government. Sugar beet premised to be below 
