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Show BIG CROP YIELD EXPECTED IN UTAH Truck Gardens Doing- Well Generally; Fruit Conditions Condi-tions Above Average. That there is to be a big yield in nearly all Utah crops this year, is indicated in-dicated in a report received yesterday by M. M. Justin, field agent for Utah and Nevada, from the crop reporting board of the bureau of crop estimates at Washington. In winter wheat the condition this year is 87, the same as that last year on June 1, while the condition of spring wheat is dropped to 93 from the 100 of last year, although al-though the acreage in the latter has gone up to 104,000, as against 90,000 in 1917. Estimates on the 1913 production of cereals in Utah give me situation as to the several grains in bushels as follows: fol-lows: Winter wheat, 4,780,000; spring wheat, 2,790,000; oats, 4,470,000; barley, bar-ley, 1,340,000; rye, 193,000. A notable feature in connection with estimates on the condition of fruits is that in the United States as a whole the average of peaches this year is only 52, as against 60.5 for 1917, while the condition in Utah is this year 82, as against 90 in 1917. Upon this estimate esti-mate the calculation is that the crop of peaches in the United States this year will fall about 3,000,000 bushels below what it was last year. On fruits the condition is estimated to be as follows: Apples. 90; peaches, SU; pears, 90; berries, 94. Watermelons are estimated to be at 95, cantaloupes at 95 and sugar beets are 90. Miscellaneous conditions are reported report-ed thus: Hay, 90; alfalfa, 87; pastures, pas-tures, 86; field peas, 98; field beans, 90; cabbage, 95; onions, 96. Utah crops were retarded in Mav by drought and cool weather. The showers the last week of the month in the northwest portion of the state helped all crops materially. Winter wheat declined 2 per cent in condition, because of the unbroken drought in Washington and San Juan counties. The acreage of spring wheat has been increased approximately 14,000 acres. Condition is slightly below aver- age because of the slow germination, due to lack of moisture in unirriu-ated soil. Oats acreage has decreased sho-htly in the state, though the Uintah basin shows a considerable increase. Condition Condi-tion of oats in the state is slightly below be-low average, being 93 per cent. Barley followed oats in the decrease in acreage, but condition averages slightly better. Rye has made good progress, the condition con-dition remaining at 90 per cent. All hav shows a condition figure of 90 per cent, grasses and clovers being better than alfalfa. Frost in Millard county and weevil ravages in other sections have lowered the condition of alfalfa to 87 per cent. Pastures show the unusually low figure fig-ure of 86 per cent, due to the drought over the ranges in the south and east. Truck crops are doing well generally. Peas are reported as 98 per cent, beans 90 per cent. Others are about average. Apples, cane berries and;pears promise prom-ise a good crop. Peaches were somewhat some-what injured by frosts in various places, and a hailstorm at Brigham caused considerable loss. The condition condi-tion in the state is 30 per cent above that of the whole country. Sugar beets are only fair, being 2 per cent below the average. Germination Germina-tion was impaired by the dry soil. |