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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15914, 11 May 1915, Page 10

Dr. Henry Clews, in his Weekly Financial Review, last month gave a satisfactory account, of tho crops in the United States. The fruit crop was good in almost all sections, and the corn crop was progressing satisfactorily under favourable, conditions, in spite of the absence of warm weather. Current estimates were for a crop of 2,900,000,000 bushels, which would be the largest crop on record except that of 1912, which amounted to 3,124,000,000. The only important crop not doing really well was cotton, the condition of which was reported at 79.6 against 81.8 last year, but tho acreage was large, 36,900,000 having been exceeded but once, last year, and the latest advices stated that tho crop \va6 growing well. Allowing for the usual deterioration in July and August, there was still time for more than average crops of both cotton and corn, and the agricultural outlook as a whole was ono that affordod I the r soundest available basis for encouragement. One good authority estimated that the agricultural products this '-car, including animals, would probably reach ; ||^^on^ul ars , spared with