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Show 11014 SUPERIOR TQ ALL FOhVBiG CHOPS j Experienced Observers Say This Year in Utah Will Be Breaker of Record. Almost a superabundance of crops of every character is predicted for Utah i this vear by experienced observers of agricultural and horticultural conditions condi-tions in the state, as reported yesterday yester-day by J. M. Kirkham, manager of the Deseret Farmer, who has just returned re-turned from a trip into central and southern Utah. Air. Kirkham s visit was prineipally confined to the farming farm-ing country iu Juab county, and concerning con-cerning what he saw there he said: Jn Juab county is a great, area nf dry farming country which is in magnificent condition' on account of the spliMidid rains that have come . this spring, On the Levan ridge is a great belt of dry farms that this iear will yield the best 'rop in the history ot the region. Urace brothers and .1, V. Paxman tell me that the average' crop in this region will reach thirtv-five bushels of wheat to the aere. Nothing Noth-ing short of some almost, unimaginable unimag-inable catastrophe can ehango the results as forecast in the present crop condition. I am informed bv farmers in the Levan district that several large tracts of 100 or more i aeres each will this year produce up to fifty bushels an acre in dry wheat. The owner of one farm, which in 1912 brought in i000 bushels bush-els of dry wheat, will this vear produce pro-duce 20,000 bushels in the aggregate. aggre-gate. This outlook, they tell me down there, is practically true of nearly every agricultural region in the central and southern parts of Utah. L. M. Winsor, government irrigation irriga-tion expert, has made extensive trips throughout the state, and be reports conditions similar to those which T have observed in the Levan district. lie says that, this vear will undoubtedly establish tlie Utah record. Ft. F. S. Harris, agronomist at. the Utah Agricultural college, tells me that there never -was another agricultural year in Utah historv wbich gave so much substantial promise as does the present season. Not only are the gnu n' crops in exceptionally good condition, but the fruits never made a better showing than they do now. Utah strawberries are in the market and their qualitv this year is up in the very first class of flavor and firmness. firm-ness. Raspberries will soon be in, and these will eoual the strawberries strawber-ries in marketable excellence. From the outlook at present it. would seem that the horticulturists horticultur-ists of Utah will be required simplv to thin out. their fruits in OTder to get best results. While fruit raisers in this state are not yet finite converted con-verted to the thinning idea, they are gradually coming to a realization realiza-tion of its benefits. Tt brings tip both quality and quantity. There is no doubt in my m i nd that the agricultural and horticultural horticul-tural crops of Utah this year will mark up a record so far in advance of fn I'm er vea rs I hat an unrxn in-pled in-pled era of prosperity will follqc. |