Show GREAT WHEAT CROP PREDICTED CATTLE CATTLEMEN CATTLEMEN MEN ARE HARD HIT J I Bureau of f C Crops ps Estimates Officer Outlines State Stale Conditions Utah should h harvest 11 bushels bush bush- els cIs more moro of or winter wheat this thin year than last said M. M r r. M. M t Justin of tho the bureau of ot crops estimates yesterday not because more moro is Ig planted as the acreage for harvest is estimated at 4 per cent less than last year but hut because because be because be- be cause tho the past winter precipitation on tho the winter wheat fields wa was was' f ex cx exceptionally cx- cx I heavy and the moisture was taken up b by the soil which will mako make the crop L Less Les b growth roth ro th than usual has been I th fit 1 result because of low how t temperatures temperatures tempera tempera- tures continued Mr Ju Justin tin but the thelast thelast thelast last few fow days das In April helped greatly Besides the acreage abandoned this year ar Is nominal and no se section shows losses widely different from the avera aver aver- a age The rye crop promises wen wen with practically the thc same acreage n as 18 last year car rain however er is needed In fn the thc southwest part of or the tho state More for Alfalfa This Year a a Acreage or ot is man last year r th the increase being widely distributed and new neVo sowings s are aro man many Wild lid hay acreage Is the same as last year and and anel the forecast Is li for about 20 O per cent more than last years year's production production pro pro- While grain rain and ha hay promise a much greater crop Ii live stock men suffered suffered suf sur- on account of th the tho severe winter and their lo losses ses have ha been unusually hea heavy felt fell greatest loss death from exposure alone alono being beine- seventy five ent e head bead in each cach thousand and nd from disease two twenty In a 1 thou thousand and Ei Eighty ht lambs In each thousand thousand thou thou- sand and died and this means th the loss In sheep sheel alone lone amounts amount to In the state rr nr more than at a a. low loir val valuation on t Ion Cattle ami p Cattle losses from exposure were fifty eight in a thousand head and from disease twenty in a thousand the total total loss in the tho state amounting to head The loss In horses from d' d deame cage aggregate 2350 50 Heaviest losses reported were ere In inthe tho the Uintah basin the south central and the northwest districts of ol the state Tho The condition of or all classes of or I live stock Is poor Plowing has been retarded due to the backward season I |