Show garner your wheat the news touches on a topic very popular in utah a few years ago that of keeping on hand a good supply of wheat tho prospect for the present year is says the news that the utah man who has a good supply of wheat in his granary would better hold on to it for a while at least as it may prove about the handiest thing of a material nature that he can have in the near future it is true that in these valleys the prospects bior a big grain crop are very good but the same conditions do not exist elsewhere and here by the heavy outward shipments of wheat last fall the supply is comparatively limited it looks now as though all the wheat that will be raised in these valleys this season will be needed to supply the local demand in such a situation the people of utah would be in a sorry plight if their grain fields should cease to give of their falness this year as the fields in other parts are doin the present condition ought to be the final warning needed to cause alie people of this state to keep ahead in their supply of staple breadstuff s as they have been advised so often and so strongly contemporary then calls attention to the condition of farmers in other parts 02 the country winter wheat has been killed to a greater or less extent and tho backward spring has largely prevented the sowing of spring wheat all this together with the disastrous floods that have occur ed all got to insure a smaller acreage and yield than would have been the case with an earlier spring and a milder winter in connection with this are the famine conditions in asia the increased demand caused by the movement of large armies in europe and the warlike preparations and prospect or actual war there and the disturbances tur bances in south america interfering with wheat in that section so that altogether the outlook ia that the price of wheat will not be reduced by the presence of an over locally for some time to come if indeed such an event can occur prior to the harvest reason of 1898 |