Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-11 | Page 10 | Utah Potatoes Show Decrease

IITiPBTITOES MM Crop Is 800,000 Bushels Less Than in 1918, Report Re-port Says, T'tfth's potato crop has decreased &60-000 &60-000 bushels this year, as compared to tut, according to th monthly crop report Issued Is-sued hy M. M. Justin, field agent for the United States agricultural depar;mer.t. Tho estimate places the average at aN;:t Ml bushels per acre, with a total of C. SJO.oOO bushels. This la 150.000 less than was estimated at the end of last month, Sugar beets show a decline of i per cent In condition, as estimated in October. Octo-ber. This is due to the loss Incident to the discing In the snow and mud and to the probability of freeting in the ground. A considerable loss is also COUntM ars the tops, which arc used for feedlns. and as the result of this feeding hay to the i cattle has been started a month earlier than usual, especially In Cache valley. l'tah corn promises a yield of five bushels less per acre than the average. This Is due. It t reported, to the lack of moisture, as the hot summer should have been very favorable to the corn crop ot! -.erwise. A considerable re of corn was planted on tho dry land m Iron county and as this was prnct ;c .illy a failure the slate Meld was cut down materially. An extraordinary demand for sweet clover seed or-asloned a larger cutting than usual. The yield wus high and the tot.tl production Is estimate.? to be one-sixth one-sixth greater than normal. The Increase whs especially reported In Duchesne. Millard Mil-lard and I" in t ah counties. The apple crop this year, while not small. Is very poor In quality, and this !s alt-o true of the pears, the report says The commercial crop of apples la climated cli-mated at 1U. 000 boxoa, compared with LfS.000 last vcAr. The pears total 47,COO bushels, compared with 31,000 Inst year.