Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-12-19 | Page 8 | Farmers Reduce Wheat Acreage

section showed . no ratura for Ik "fort made In growing th crop. Th low growing condition U reported re-ported rather uniformly from all ee. with a figure of I pwr Mat, are th e.eeptlone. Th oll was too dry for vn termination at Medina, o the stand la apMted and growth U vary hjwadvreMoalyajrojrale eondlttorv will a needed tiit spring to mak a crop. Th praaeal weather-factor weather-factor of a now rorar on unfroaea around are- good, but must ba ooa- a tinned." FARMERS REDUCE WHEAT ACREAGE I'uh's acreage of winter wheat sown this fall Is 10 per cent of last yaar's (owing, or 143.000 acre, aald M. M. Justin, statlatlclan of tha bureau of rropa eetlmatea of tha United Btatea department of agriculture agricul-ture today. Continuing, he said: "The' revised eetlmate for laat year I 12,00 acrea. The condition of tha growing rrop this year Is TO per cent of normal compared with to laat y.-xr. "The reduction In ecreag la probably prob-ably due in greater part to th poor financial returns from winter wheat laat seaaon than to the drouth this fall. Price are low. and when ap-plied ap-plied to the extremely low yield many