This matter of high prices, in fact, serves to be the key of the situation and bulks latter by far in the trade discussion than does the talk of the possibility of hostilities. The financial markets and the floating of new enterprises reflect the prospects of war in a species of repression of sentiment, but nothing is there any appearance of uneasiness or anything other than a state awaiting of what the future holds in its hands. The season is not an especially early one, and the early crop outlook is far from favorable. Inured the winter wheat crop prospects are poor, the poorest in many years; in fact, owing to lack of rain in the Southwest and winter killing in the Central West. Estimates of the area killed are next to the highest ever recorded. It is possible, however, to replant all the land to corn, oats, and other food crops, providing weather and good seed are forthcoming. The heavy snows of the latter part of the winter in the Northwest are disappearing, and soil conditions there should favor a start for what is hoped to be a record spring wheat crop.

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