Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-10 | Page 47 | Utah's Potato Crop Twice Normal Value

UTAH'S POTATO CROP TWICE NORMAL VALUE Yield Will Produce More Than Million for Farmers Farm-ers of State This Year. Utah's potato crop. this year, despite decreased acreage, will yield the farmers farm-ers of the state more than twice the value of an average crop of tubers, and $1,091,000 more than last year, according accord-ing to a government crop report. While the government estimated price of ifl.10 a bushel is rather higher than the present pres-ent actual prices, there is no doubt that potatoes this year will bring more than last year," and about twice the ordinary yield in cash. The same report shows that the sugar beet yield is heavier than normal and indicates that that crop may yield this year more actual money than any other crop, except -hay, ever did in Utah. The report was made public yesterday yester-day through the office of Minor M. Justin, field agent for Utah and Nevada Ne-vada of the bureau of crop estimates, United States department of agriculture. agricul-ture. Tn commenting on the statistics given in the report, Mr. Justin says: "Reports to the bureau of crop" estimates esti-mates from correspondents throughout the state indicate that the production of potatoes in Utah will be 3,600,000 bushels this year. While the crop is smaller than last year because farmers nlanted fewer potatoes and more wheat, the value at the prices reported is $3,980,000, or $1,091,000 gTeater than last year, and more than twice the value of an average crop. Potato prices arc high in line with other things, and not because of a real scarcity of potatoes. po-tatoes. The United States crop is above average. "Clover seed, mostly sweet clover, is reported as averaging five bushels per acre. The total production is reported re-ported as 00 per cent of a full crop, or about 4o00 bushels. Eains after cutting in Emery and Uintah counties caused some shattering of seed. "Sugar beets are reported yielding better than norma, the condition fitmre haing raised 7 points from 94 to 101 in the month of October. This, with the present price, bids fair to make this year's beet crop worth more than any crop ever grown in Utah, oxcept hay. "Fihal figures on pear and grape production indicate an average crop. "Commercial apples have improved slightly in the past month, now promising promis-ing 4S2.000 boxes, compared with o2 -000 last year. In the United States the commercial crop is estimated at i!4,-400.000 i!4,-400.000 barrels, compared with 22,519-000 22,519-000 barrels last year."