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Show white last year it was 03 per cent. Sugar beets are rated as 70 per cent of iiuriiml. J-ast year they were 07 per cent. Other crops are as follows, this year's per centage being given first : JSarlcv, 7S per cent, UO per cent; corn, 7S per cent, 80 per cent ; potatoes, pota-toes, so per cent, 00 per cent ; tame hav, 7ii per cent, 80 per cent; pasture, pas-ture, 50 per cent, 90 per cent; apples. UO per cent, 00 per cent ; peaches, 05 per cent, S3 per cent; poars, 73 per cent, 80 per cent; blackberries, UTAH CROPS ; SHOW DECLINE i July Drouth Causes Damage to Peaches, Hay and I ALso to Apples. There was general decline in Utah ' crops during July because of drought, according to the August 1 report issued yesterday by Miner II. Justin, agricultural statistician of tile federal division of crop and livestock live-stock estimates. The greatest decreases shown are In tame hay, apples and peaches. The deterioration in pastures and ranges was less than exacted, but is now becoming rapid, the report says. The condition of spring wheat Is given as 77 per cent of normal, as compared with 05 per cent In 1023. For oats the figure is 80 per cent, 80 per cent, i)o per cent; grapes, ao per cent, 90 per cent; melons, 82 per cent, 89 per cent The acreage of various crops, compared com-pared with last year, the 1024 figure fig-ure being given first, follows: Winter Win-ter wheat, 149,000 acres, 148,000 ncres; spring wheat, 114,000 acres, 124,000 acres; oats, 83,000 acres, 81,000 acres; barley, 24,000 acres; 22,000 acres ; rye, 11.000 acres ; 11,-00 11,-00 acres; corn, 22,000 acres; 31,000 acres; potatoes, 14,000 acres, 16,000 acres; sugar beets, 98,000 acres; 83,000 acres; tame hay, 528,000 acres, 523,000 acres. |
