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RUSSIAN SPRING SOWING. GOOD CROP PROSPECTS.

LONDON, April 21st. According to a message from Moscow, the Commissary of Agriculture states that the Spring sowing has been successfully accomplished, averting a famine this year. Crop prospects are good.

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