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Show in most FIIJHffllS Reports Show Decrease in Apple Yield, but Peaches Will Increase. Special cnmmprrlnl crop reports for July hnve ln'f-n Issued hj- tho bureau of rrup e.st iinafes. Fhnwin the cundl-tinn cundl-tinn and csllniated yield of peaches, ap-I ap-I Uh rind pears hi the commercial orchards or-chards nf the nation. They indicate, that the apple yield nf Ulah tills year will be about 81.000 boxes short of that in lfilS. and a total of 408. Oeo boxeH; but that reaches will rim 8:iL'."0 bushels this year, as compared with T.Vulon bushels last year. Approximately thirty-fiye cars of pears, it is estimated, will be shipped out of L'tah this year. Idaho promises to have 2.'.iri8.0nn boxes of apples this year, as compared with only ;i:;l,DOO hist year, the present condition con-dition beini- 71 P'-r cent of the average, aver-age, while in 11118 it was only 1 per cent. Washnm-ton will have a heavy yield of apples, running as high as 11,-OLT.,000 11,-OLT.,000 boxes. In apples the nation as a whole will not quite come up to the mark set last year, there beiriK heavy losses reported In eastern states. The feature of the peach report Is the bumper yield In California. The nation's crop as a whole will be r,0 per cent better bet-ter than last year, even thous;h there was a SO per cent decrease In New-York. New-York. Michlyan and Ohio in June, due to leaf curl and other blights. |