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Show Utah Farmers Hold Half of Grain Crop OGDEN, Feb. 14 ( A statement Issued by the Ogden grain exchange today ssid farmers in Utah and southern south-ern Idaho ar carrying into th new aeaaon half the wheat produced last year. Farmers were reported holding their grain until th pric situation improves. Tha statement said mills In the northwest were -shipping flour into California by water at rates Inter-mountsin Inter-mountsin mills could not afford to offer. It was estimated 1,000.000 bushels bush-els of wheat remain on farms in the Utah-Idaho area and 12,000,000 bushels bush-els at mills and elevators. |