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Show Bumper .Farm Crops In Ulah-and the Nation That 1914 has been u bumper year for tho I'tiih farmers Ib Indicated by n bulletin of crop cRtlmiites Issued by tho United Stutes Department of Agriculture. The total yield or per cent Is also given for the nation us u whole ns well oh that of Utah In wheat and corn It Is tho largest In tho nation's history, nnd Utah Is way ahead in almost every crop of any other year. For corn tho eatlmato Is 3CC.000 In Utah as compared with 340,000 .last year; for the United States, 2,600,000,000 ns compared with 2,440,-1)48,000 2,440,-1)48,000 in 1913. Tho greatest Increase Is In wheat, 7,340,000 lu Utah as compared with ti,420,000 In 1913. Tho yield jn tho nation wus 892,000,000, an Increase of 130,000,000 over last year. Oats tu Utah this year yielded 4,650,000 ns compared with 4,140,000 Inst year; United States 1,140,000,000 In 1914 und 1,121,708,000 In 1913. Dn'rley in Utah Is given as 1, 410,000 bushels this year und 1,105,000 Inst: United States 197,000,-000, 197,000,-000, 1914 and 178,189,000 for 1913. Potatoes yielded less in Utah owing to the blight, but showed o good Increase In-crease nationally, which will keep the price down. Utah will raise 2,810,000 this year as compared with 3,600,000 bushels Inst, showing a loss of nearly thirty pur cent. In the United States the yiold this year Is given 382,000,000 ub compared with 371,000,000 in 1913. Or liny thu crop In Utah In 1914 Is 1,116,000 tuns, In 1913 It was 909,000, tho lncreaso probobly being due to u butter handling of tho weevil. Tim national yield is 68,604,000 tons m, incroaso of 4,488,000 tons. ' Apples show tho greatest Increase ot almost any crop, in Utah this yc,ir th ylold Is 808,000 bushels, last year It was but 610,000. Nationally it il given nH 230,000,000 bushels us com pared with 145,410,000 Inst, on liu crenso of 84,590,000 bushols. Other crops nro given lu per cent of condition or of full crop, as fol-lows! fol-lows! Utah U.S. Clovor Seed 05 C8 a Olovor Seed, lust year loo 701 Alfalfa Seed , 54 77 Alfalfa Seed, last year t7 yg' 1'omatoes gn 732 Tomatoes, last your 03 77'y Cabbages yy ' Cabbages, last year 87 71' Sugar Ueets, yo yj IJ dugar Ueets, last year .... '12 S6.2 |