Show UTAH UTA CROM state stat e stands well among other western states in agricultural products there is ia a fund of interesting inter eating information in the march number of the crop reporter published by authority of the secretary of agriculture the publication states that utah had bad bushels of corn on hand band march 1 of this year a decrease of bushels from last years report and bushels of wheat while the corresponding month last year showed bushels on hand band the per cent of crop on hand band this year was m as 18 and during the early part of march a year ago 30 per cent and the average fr fc r the past five years 18 per cent of the corn crop this year 28 20 per cent was N as shipped out of the country thirty five per cent of the wheat raised was shipped out of the state is another product of fertile soil which gets space in the bulletins of this utah had on hand mar 1 this year bushels a year ago bushels this years figures represent 34 per cent of the crop last years 35 per cent I 1 there was 30 per cent shipped out this year and but 10 last year the average slip ah shipment ment during the past 10 years has been 17 per cent utah wheat weighed 59 69 pounds per bushel in 1907 a pound less than in in the previous year oats weighed 38 pounds more than in 1906 tho the departments bureau of statistics has made no attempt to investigate the supply of potatoes carried over the winter minter season the quantity of potatoes held is less than last year agis as is the proportion of the crop held for market by dealers at Int interior points the united states leads other countries in cheat at ard d crop production by large figures utah stands well among other western states in these products |